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Ever-greedy for preeminence, Harvard always strives for more. But is what's good for Harvard always good for the country? Is greed good...
...Jodie Foster's brother earn the nickname Buddy? In his book Foster Child, Buddy Foster explores Jodie's sex life, their mother's affair with a woman and many family secrets. Last week the actress called her brother "a distant acquaintance motivated solely by greed and sour grapes." He's no Buddy...
When I started out as a young babe, my tabula was completely rasa. Of greed, envy and pride I knew little; of assault, battery and sodomy, still less...
...every reason, the Gilded Age: the time of huge, unfettered industrial expansion; of unassailable and mutually interlocking trusts, combines and cartels; of rampant money acting under laws it wrote for itself. "Get rich," wrote Mark Twain sardonically, "dishonestly if we can, honestly if we must." From this culture of greed arose the primal names of American business: Rockefeller (oil), Carnegie and Frick (steel), Vanderbilt (railroads), the Goulds, Astors, Fisks and, towering over them all, the magister ludi of saber-toothed capitalism, J. Pierpont Morgan. After 1870, America lost all its Puritan inhibitions about the gratuitous display of surplus wealth...
...cultivate foreboding: democracy seemed washed up; both inflation and unemployment were out of control; warheads were pointed our way; the '60s had left a residue of chaos without idealism (you know--Altamont). The '80s brought fresh stuff to find deeply troubling: recession, Star Wars weapons, Reaganomics, leveraged-buyout layoffs, greed, soaring deficits, Michael Dukakis as a potential President. Now? Well, let's see: there's the failure of the budget deal to adequately address middle-class entitlements. A nontrivial problem, but not a crisis like the wars and riots and racism and economic calamities that Americans have faced...