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Feinstein praised the Ivy League model of athletics for putting the interests of student-athletes first and staving off the forces of corruption he said have hurt much of the NCAA. He pointed to corporate greed as the driving force behind the for-profit professionalization of amateur athletics and cited declining academic standards and low graduation rates as its fallout...
...targeted for destruction because of what it represented—capitalism, free trade, material wealth, greed, power and even the secular, democratic way of life. The attacks represented a clash of civilizations, yet the terrorists struck at progressive society with products of its own technological sophistication. The deaths of thousands of innocent citizens going about their workday routines helped to elevate this disaster to mythic stature. Who could have conceived of being attacked while making photocopies in a normal office environment? This tragedy stripped away the fragile veneer of security and stability from our daily lives...
...protests with demonizing references to the people and establishments they blame for the ills they are seeking to correct. The protests are not about the janitors, but about the avarice of Harvard administrators. They’re not about the Africans, but about Coca-Cola’s corporate greed. And they’re not about Iraqi civilians, but about Bush, who—like all Republicans—is clearly...
...kill the musicians, too." The family was seeking $1 million in damages, Khramtsova said, "to make the officials remember that their office is a job, not a privilege, to ensure that nothing like that happens to others." The Moscow government defended itself in part by accusing the plaintiffs of greed. The city faces financial disaster if it has to compensate citizens for terrorist acts, the argument went, and the theater attack is neither the first Chechen operation nor is it likely to be the last. Vladimir Platonov, chairman of the Moscow City Duma, said the plaintiffs were digging into...
...what should be permissible and what should not? Does the promise of a new technology outweigh the risks that it could be misused? The challenges are too important to address in a climate of fear or ignorance or to be distorted by the greed or vainglory of renegade scientists with an alien agenda. --Reported by Melissa August/Washington, Andrea Dorfman and Deirdre van Dyk/New York, Jeff Israely/Rome and Tim Padgett/Miami