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Your story is a fine analysis of the lending practices of Western bankers. I agree with your statement that the responsibility for this mess lies with the "gunslinging" young bank officers who get ahead by handing out money to foreign borrowers with little concern about repayment. The banks are at fault for this situation. They fail to train their personnel properly...
...mess," added Arthur Drivas, general manager of the Wursthaus...
...kind of rational assessment might be impossible. Passions are often at play that make a cost-benefit analysis unlikely. Most killers are probably not lucid thinkers at their best. Henry Brisbon Jr. (see box) may be legally sane, but he is by ordinary standards demented enough to make a mess of any theory of deterrence. Says New York University Law Professor Anthony Amsterdam: "People who ask themselves those questions-'Am I scared of the death penalty? Would I not be deterred?'-and think rationally, do not commit murder for many, many reasons other than the death penalty...
CLEANING OUT CLOSETS can be terribly confusing as piles of long-forgotten objects tumble out once we start to open the door. Behind the spiderwebs lie the dust-covered paraphernalia representing our past. In the mess, we find our first A in grade school, the cast from our first broken wrist, cracked pictures of former lovers; in Brian DePalma's case, he apparently re-discovered the reels from his 1969 movie The Wedding Party. Sometimes closets are best left unopened...
...Good," said the student, and he ran over to the huge pile of exams on the front desk, threw his blue book into the middle of the mess, and dashed out of the room...