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Gibney says he doesn't think Enron "set out to become fraudulent." At first it was just trying to cover up relatively modest failures. But watching Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, we realize we're not smart enough, attentive enough or sufficiently lacking in greed to penetrate the next great fraud when it rolls down--not if its masters truly believe in it and keep beaming. --By Richard Schickel
...into to the next step, what is success and how much of one’s value system one is willing to compromise to achieve that success. A vast majority equates success with the “rich and famous.” Most corporate scandals resulted from unabashed greed, and since they are all a product of our society, we must critically examine our value system and “the” definition of success. To paraphrase George Sheehan, the running philosopher: “Success is not something that can be measured or worn on a watch...
...republic. The regime is cunning enough to dispense new social liberties carefully, with periodic perfunctory raids reminding young people that they are being given freedom and shouldn't confuse it with a right or an accomplishment. But young Iranians probably can't be bought off indefinitely. The hedonism and greed of the moment mask a profound frustration that could still boil over. The question is, Will anyone notice until it does...
Veteran green campaigners have been surprised by the speed with which banks have embraced change. "I think that many activists may have assumed that bankers were priests of the Church of Greed," says Steve Kretzmann, director of Oil Change, a Washington group that specializes in tracking project finance. "But many bank representatives have a sophisticated and advanced sense of the environmental, social and reputational risks...
...subtle racism that still divides South African society. That may worsen in our second decade of democracy, as the idealists of the struggle and the survivors of oppression increasingly move out of public life. Our quality of life may decline if people fail to recognize capitalism's ills, like greed and self-complacency, and if they lack compassion for their neighbors. We have to pin our hopes on the possibility that enough South Africans have embraced the most fundamental value of our constitution: human dignity. Dan Badenhorst Cape Town Days of Rage Time vividly depicted the anti-Japanese sentiment brewing...