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...brought a lot to the world and to its people. So many men and women, who have contributed greatly in secular fields, have been proud Jews. I get a special sense of Jewish pride when I read Albert Einstein's quote: "The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, and almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence, these are the features of the Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars I belong...
...billion. While some takeovers shook up overly complacent managers and led to useful restructuring, much of the raiding served only to distract corporate America from its real work of improving products and services. In the view of Wall Street's critics, hundreds of deals were done for the sake of the fees and stock payoffs they would generate. This was not the way Wall Street traditionally operated, but in that hotly competitive environment many firms followed Drexel's lead. The resulting riches created a whole new spending culture as Wall Streeters found new ways to dispose of their wealth, buying...
...Grandparents out there," said Bush in his State of the Union speech, "tell your grandchildren the story of struggles waged, at home and abroad, of sacrifices freely made for freedom's sake." Maybe a speechwriter had just seen Kenneth Branagh addressing the troops at Agincourt in the new movie of Henry V: "He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,/ Will stand a- tiptoe when this day is named . . ./ Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,/ But he'll remember, with advantages,/ What feats he did that day . . .This story shall the good man teach his son." Well...
...think it's nice for the sake of diversity," Richard said. "However, there is the problem that the Law School has six Black male professors and no Black female professors...
...cooperative did not get them much last year." This official would prefer to trade favors and make deals -- to allow the Democrats "to be the winners sometimes to get what we want." But Sununu and others, adds the official, "have a real desire to inflict pain for its own sake...