Word: greed
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Edelman earned a standing ovation in 1989 for her Radcliffe Medal acceptance speech, in which she urged Americans to put aside personal ambitions and greed to head off devastating poverty among children. She pointed out that children "are growing poorer while our nation is growing richer...
...needy students, even providing black uniforms with white caps and aprons for those who had waitressing jobs--at 50 cents an hour. The work ethic was a fact of life in those times. Circumstances, and our parents, taught us the value of money, but that seldom added up to greed. There wasn't that much money around...
...coined one of the most famous phrases of the 1980s: "Greed is good." Apparently it still is. Last week in a Manhattan courtroom, right next door to the Woody Allen-vs.-Mia Farrow soap opera, Ivan Boesky, 56, out of prison but exiled from Wall Street, began his latest takeover attempt. He is demanding nearly $50 million in alimony from his former wife, Seema Boesky, 50ish, a wealthy heiress in her own right. He claims that he made her "rich beyond her imagination," and that even though some of these riches resulted from his own illegal activities, he still deserves...
...blame for this mess. They have silently acquiesced in the proposition that if we just keep writing checks and leaving them alone, science could solve the problems of the world. They have promoted the presentation of themselves as antiseptic drones, whose work is uncorrupted by influences like sex, greed or ambition, which muddy life for the rest of us. But science is done by real people who do not check their humanity at the lab door. Lamentably but humanly, they do shoot their mouths off too much about God and the egregiously misnamed theory of everything. The Young Turks...
...ball park, to cheer like mad, to savor every game of this last shining season. Fans live on unrealistic hopes, so maybe it isn't an impossible dream for someone -- perhaps a commissioner selected by both the owners and the players -- to save this grand game from its own greed and folly. In the meantime, here's hoping Nolan Ryan finally gets a chance to star in a World Series...