Word: riche
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...author argue. We failed capitalism by getting in its way. As if we're the ones who created the sleazy subprime mortgages and exotic derivatives (graded phony AAA by real capitalists) that blew up the system. It's the standard Forbes canon: government and taxes bad; rich people good. The pair dutifully round up free-market evangelists from Smith to Hayek to Friedman to support their apologia but fail to add any real insight. Capitalism works, all right, but not like this...
Even if it had taken aim at any truly idea-rich art, the church would do well to be wary. Nearly every time the clergy has tried to peg something as “illusory and deceitful” in the past, it’s been forced to engage in copious backtracking—picking out “good art” is always something of a dice toss. For proof, the Pope would simply have had to look up. Michelangelo’s altar fresco “The Last Judgment,” a fundamental background...
...significant changes, unless they can muster 60 votes for them. Although there will be a number of skirmishes - over abortion funding, illegal immigrants' access to the new insurance marketplace, a government-run public option and whether to help pay for the whole enterprise by raising taxes on the rich or taxing high-end, so-called Cadillac insurance plans, just to name a few - everyone knows that the real test will be the moment, weeks from now, when Reid attempts to shut down debate and bring the measure to a final vote. (See 10 players in health care reform...
Despite his extraordinarily successful career, the composer has still received his fair share of hostile reviews. Rich recalled attending a Washington production of Sondheim’s musical “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” that had garnered such bad press that, he said, “My parents almost considered not letting me use my ticket...
...everybody, however, thinks divorce tourism is helpful. With a clientele of diplomats, police officers and rich businessmen, Karl Dantas of Bombay Travels says he won't be cashing in on the trend. "Leveraging somebody's misery," he says, "is not my business...