Word: greed
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...third big theme is snooping. Just as South Africa's government engages in constant surveillance, so, in McClure's vision, do its citizens spy on one another, usually out of jealousy or greed. The consequences are often fatal. This peeping and prying is a focus of The Steam Pig and of two other memorable entries: The Caterpillar Cop and The Gooseberry Fool. Fittingly, Zondi and Kramer meet in The Song Dog after surreptitiously trailing each other, each in search of clues to his own case...
...many admirers calls Williamson "a Mother Teresa for the '90s," promoting peace of mind through God. Her detractors, however, see something less enlightening at work. No one has accused Williamson of greed -- a single mother, she lives modestly with her daughter India, 14 months, in a two- bedroom apartment in West Hollywood -- but her desire for publicity is another matter. "She's an expression of the entertainment industry -- fueled by fame and the desire to be a star," says an expert on new religious movements in California. "The course is the perfect disconnected religion of the '90s. It allows driven...
...Gwynne were holed up in an office, still tracing the weird contours of one of the world's most baroque financial schemes -- a Washington-to-Abu Dhabi intrigue that matches John le Carre's imagination for espionage, Frederick Forsyth's for terrorism and Oliver Stone's for greed. In this week's story, Jonathan and Sam have uncovered how the Bank of Credit & Commerce International used a "black network" of terrorists and self-appointed spies to serve as a one-stop shopping center for criminals, corrupt leaders and official intelligence agencies around the world. "The story at the outset...
...advice goes, you can't show greed. It's the fastest thing that gets you killed. Also, when you're around the boss, don't drink. See, when a guy drinks, his feelings come out. What Scarfo would do, and he was famous for this, was take everyone to dinner and order double margaritas. Then he'd start talking about people, and he wants to see who chimes in, wants to see what they got to say. He'd make a guy drink and drink and talk and talk until there was no more talk left in him. I never...
...kill or hurt people for money. That's greed. Maybe you'll want to buy me a gift or send me a case of champagne. You'd find out what I like. Maybe I'll want to borrow money from you sometime. See, "this thing" is like the second government. If politicians, doctors, lawyers, surgeons come to us for favors, there's got to be a reason. There's no justice in court for certain people, so they come to us. Maybe somebody is bothering a guy's wife or daughter, or he wants to borrow money to go into...