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...often these days, investigators come to act like and resemble those they investigate--people who are swayed by money, willing to use any means to their ends, secretive and conspiratorial, convinced of their superior intelligence and rectitude, unable to see anything around them but evil. It all seems to swell and consume everything before them. Can the presidency be that depraved and it go unnoticed...
...printed and distributed within four months, so that we can launch the campaign by spring.' 'And the whole University must be included,' said another, 'working in its traditional, coordinated, flawless, non-competitive, polyphonic, friction-free way--so that sights can be raised; crescent moons can become full; tides can swell; and all our tubs can paddle off together, to the happy isles, where there will never be Jabberwocks or even Snarks to snare or bedevil...
...Whether or not Anderson had ironic intent when he chose to find an American story in the sex industry is a matter for artistic interpretation. Regardless, as one watches the ideals of our nation so seamlessly grafted on to the foundation of hard-core porn, the patriotic heart must swell. Dirk Diggler reminds us that the American dream is no longer about hard work aided by a bit of good fortune. It's about rising on the wings of mediocrity and claims of entitlement. It's about gratifying those in the position to facilitate your climb, a widespread sort...
With the demand for equity still strong, IPO deals could swell this river of money with new revenue streams. Today's IPOs, Klein argues, constitute extortion visited by ruthless financiers upon under-funded entrepreneurs. The problem, from his guerrilla perspective, is that the lead underwriter who puts together an investment syndicate to take a company public offers it $12 a share, then prices the stock to the public at $15. Theoretically, some of that $3 a share could be the company's. So the stock hits NASDAQ via the traditional underwriting route at $15, then races...
...seemed funny at first, and it gave us a swell story to tell on our book tour. But the interloper who seized our telephone line continued to hit us even after the tour ended. And hit us again and again for the next six months. The phone company seemed powerless. Its security folks moved us to one unlisted number after another, half a dozen times. They put special pin codes in place. They put traces on the line. But the troublemaker kept breaking through...