Word: tom
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...economy revived, but an outsize share of the benefit seemed to flow to Wall Street. Mergers proliferated wildly, mostly, it seemed, for the enrichment of a few financial manipulators--novelist Tom Wolfe's Masters of the Universe. Moralists bemoaned what they saw as a sanctification of greed--not only in the U.S. but also in Margaret Thatcher's Britain, Helmut Kohl's West Germany and, of all places, Red China. But unlike in the irrationally exuberant 1920s, disaster did not strike. Though stocks fell even faster on Oct. 19, 1987, than they had in 1929, they bounced back higher than...
...years past we've had a longer time to thinkit over, come together and discuss amongstourselves what the members want for a contract,"said Tom Potter, a faculty secretary at the LawSchool, and leader of the Union "pro-democracycaucus...
...home for news in the next century? The problem with Drudge is that a Web page is cheap, e-mail is essentially free, and no one checks your resume at the door before signing you up for a domain name. In a wired world, Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw hold no monopoly over the news. Anyone with a connection to the Internet can open his or her own site, be it timely news or unverified gossip...
...time to stop this insanity? The Spanish Inquisition was an example of general-court powers gone awry. Starr is a modern-day Torquemada with unrestricted powers to recklessly punish anyone he judges to be heretical. TOM BYFIELD Minneapolis, Minn...
...Cheer for Apathy" Tom Cotton assured us that it was not so much a belief of ineffectuality that renders students apathetic but a devotion to the experience of a liberal education and the selfless pursuit of medical school admission or a Wall Street position that leads students to "prudently choose their education over activism." The notion that a secluded liberal education is valuable, or even possible, stuns us. The proposal that one is best educated by avoiding ideology, activism, and community activity is patently ridiculous. It is a presumptuous fallacy to suggest that "education" is only attainable in wood-paneled...