Word: taint
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...from seizing the opportunity to purge itself of Enron’s taint, the Harvard Corporation, in choosing Rubin, is adding to its Enron infection. Winokur, acting as the chair of the Enron Finance Committee, oversaw the suspension of the company’s ethical standards and the creation of a number of partnerships that Enron used to defraud its investors. Meanwhile, Citigroup, according to the complaint filed against it by Enron shareholders, allegedly “hid loans, set up false investments and facilitated phantom Enron sales” for the energy giant...
...appeals to all three groups. The future I-bankers can use it to maintain an artificially high GPA. The few who learn for learning’s sake can do so without letting things like “competition” and “judgment” taint the purity of knowledge. For the rest of us who could largely give a rat’s ass about “learning,” it’s the ultimate instrument of slackerdom. Imagine if you didn’t care about impressing your TF in section...
...Wisse to see Israel engage in the overt racism that snatches jobs, homes, family, freedom, and life from Arabs. But somehow I doubt it. I think God avoids Wisse’s conflation of Israel and Judaism—indeed, I hope he does, lest the sins of Israel taint the vast majority of Jews who believe in freedom and human rights for all, no matter what the race or creed. As long as Israel flagrantly violates human rights, it deserves to be ‘bashed.’ Wisse claims that Jews feel ‘enormous pressure...
...disgusted by the perpetual shell games perpetrated on hardworking Americans by a venal, corrupt political system infused by the taint of corporate money. That the elite can profit while the rest of us must scurry for protection, with no help from our government, is outrageous. The idea that we have chosen to deregulate business through our own elections is nonsense! What has happened is that corporate money has influenced our politicians more than the votes of ordinary people. Until strong campaign-finance reform is enacted, the perfidy of "the best government money can buy" will continue. PHILIP A. STAHL Colorado...
...Washington Musharraf's performance over the past five months has absolved him of the taint of seizing power in a military coup in 1999. His support is growing at home as well; there's little nostalgia among ordinary Pakistanis for the endemic corruption that characterized the decade of civilian rule that preceded the coup, and his stand against extremism is popular...