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...public mind. Though her short, unhappy life of six years was spent in a middle-class Manhattan household, it was in circumstances of stunning callousness and squalor. Joel Steinberg, 47, the disbarred attorney who illegally adopted her, spent days at a time in a cocaine stupor. His live-in companion Hedda Nussbaum, 46, was a former children's book editor with a boxer's dented profile, the result of years of beatings by Steinberg. And while only Steinberg stood trial for Lisa's death, a shadow of complicity fell upon everyone who did not act to prevent it: Nussbaum...
...says USX's Roderick. "If we can rely on another five years to put virtually billions of dollars into additional modern facilities, then I think we can go back to trying to live without VRAs," he argues. Without the market stability the VRAs provide, Roderick contends, modernization would falter, bringing about "catastrophic" long-term consequences. The best solution, some experts suggest, is a compromise that would gradually wean the industry from trade barriers...
...author presents them, these ultrarich tend to be banal in thought and sometimes defiantly plain Jane in tastes. "What's better than meat-loaf?" asks Texas developer Walter W. Caruth Jr., whose wife (despite his $600 million) does all the cooking. Surprisingly few of Packard's subjects try to live up to their imposing annual incomes. Leonard Shoen, the founder of U- Haul, says he could comfortably retire on $50,000 a year...
Salenger's roommate, Tanya S.J. Selvaratnam '92, says the performer is easy to live with...
...humanitarian conservatism is more than just a philosophy of noblesse oblige applied to a bourgeois capitalist setting. It seeks to show that while the ideal worlds of Plato, Marx and the socialists might make great places to live (and maybe not), this is an imperfect world...