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...characterize property destruction -whether it is pulling up paving stones in Paris, breaking embassy windows in Jakarta or wrecking a slum-area store in Los Angeles-with a phrase like 'reckless, ignorant vandalism' is a political judgment," Cohen has written. He agrees with Fordham University Sociologist John M. Martin that every act of vandalism carries a heavy freight of motivation and even logic-though scanalized and law-abiding citizens are not likely to appreciate either. As a classic example, the Luddites who smashed the new textile machines at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution were venting their rage...
...practicing Muslim, I was deeply saddened by the repression and intolerance of Iran's post-1979 regime. Now I am equally saddened by the lifestyle of young Iranians described in your article. I do not know which is worse--the fanatical fascism of the mullahs or the alcohol-soaked, reckless hedonism of today's Iranian youth...
...What I don't understand is how we can rebuild everything we are rebuilding over there, but here in America our infrastructure is falling apart," he says. "I had to borrow $776,000 for this city for water. They are spending it just like nothing over there. That's reckless, and that's wrong. As soon as we build something, they blow it up. That's a big problem with me, big problem...
...stocks. (I've entrusted his firm, Third Avenue Management, with some of my own money for nearly a decade, though I don't own any of the stocks mentioned in this column.) At times, his willingness to buy what everyone else regards as toxic can seem almost reckless. In 1998, Wadhwaney?then running a hedge fund for Third Avenue?loaded up on imploding shares of the Noble Group, a Singapore-listed shipping and commodities firm that was losing money; he subsequently rode it to a fiftyfold gain. "The Asian crisis was just madness," he says. "It was wonderful...
...could be stoking such fears merely to justify a tougher policy toward North Korea. If Pyongyang were to test a nuclear weapon, it might in fact play perfectly into Washington's hands, convincing the international community to get serious about imposing painful sanctions. "If North Korea takes such reckless actions as conducting a nuclear test, it will further deepen its isolation and take itself on a road where its future will not be guaranteed," warned South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki Moon...