Word: riche
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This tension reveals perhaps the crucial point: Walzer defends the interpretive model he embraces by offering many examples of Jewish rabbinical interpretation and story-telling. Indeed the third chapter of his book initially was presented before the Harvard Hillel, an audience familiar with that tradition's rich biblical foundations. For Jews deeply concerned with Judaism at a personal and political level--and Walzer is such a person--these stories and the approach they embody are deeply persuasive. But Walzer forgets that the language of rights and duties, a language which Rawls attempts to sharpen and shape, has an enduring history...
...investment firm, with providing $550 million in false tax write-offs through fraudulent trades in Government securities. Atkins, who headed Securities Groups, is the son of former Ashland Oil Chairman Orin Atkins. The roster of investors lured into the scheme reads like a program listing for Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous...
Atkins began playing Pied Piper to the rich in 1978 with a scheme that promised $4 in paper losses from securities trading for every $1 invested. He was only 24 when he started and 29 when the operation ended in 1983 amid lawsuits from angry investors who accused Atkins of having caused them huge losses. Many had felt queasy about trusting someone under 30, but were reassured by Atkins' plush, marble-floored offices at 500 Park Avenue, his impeccable grooming and the fact that his father was a well-known oil executive. The Tisches say they went along because their...
...howled in agreement. An older fellow, Philip Finn, who was on vacation from Plains, Pa., was also awed, but confided to me, "What I'm interested in watching is whether he keeps it off." So am I. Then again, I wonder if Remar will become too thin, too rich, too famous? Hmm, Mom, any advice on how I can persuade the editors to send me back down here for a follow...
...world recalled in both these books seems remote from history. Mellons, Fricks, Altmans and Rockefellers vie for Giorgiones, Titians, Bellinis and Botticellis, while offstage monarchies disintegrate, nation-states aggressively come of age, and men are pulped in the trenches. There is a certain amount of glee in reading about rich innocents abroad who retained Berenson as an art consultant without knowing the extent of his ties to Duveen and other dealers. If the "squillionaires," as Berenson called them, did not always get what they paid for, they at least got royal treatment...