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...that Wall Street's greed - and by Wall Street, we mean the world of money and investments, not a geographic area in downtown Manhattan - was supplemented by ignorance. Folks in the world of finance created, bought, sold and traded securities that were too complex for them to fully understand. (Try analyzing a CDO-squared sometime. Good luck...
...your recent issue featuring Barack Obama, he is portrayed as an all-around person fit for the job of being the next President of the United States. Your articles on McCain were anything but that. He does not get credit for anything that he has accomplished. While I understand there is freedom of the press, there still needs to be freedom of choice. Rivky Levy, Brooklyn...
...understand why the candidates don't want to go near these issues. "Sympathy and subtlety," notes Tom Murray of the Hastings Center for bioethics, "are seasonings rarely applied to political red meat." We have reached a point in our political discourse when candidates are punished less for flatly lying than for changing their minds. You can caricature your opponent, airbrush your record, come close to just making things up and suffer less than if you're caught with a belief that has evolved. The political term for flexible is flip-flopper...
Your self-confidence is almost intimidating. Do you make a conscious effort to project it, or does it come naturally? -Mauricio Beltran, ChicagoWell, that's not naturally who I am, you know. I understand what you're saying, but I don't think all the films I've made have been that way. The ones that I made that were more vulnerable, people never...
Your articles on McCain reveal truths that no objective person could help but understand. McCain and party call Obama an élitist because he went to the Ivy League schools Columbia and Harvard. Yet McCain went to Annapolis and became a pilot, and when asked he couldn't remember how many homes he and his wife owned! Talk about élitism! And do some people think that going against the party line one out of 10 times is a maverick? And he cannot answer a simple question about how he defines honor. No doubt he will later...