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...irony of this strange war is that just as we see the limits of what money can buy, buying becomes our patriotic duty. Perhaps we'd need to buy less if we could learn to accept less upward mobility and slower growth. In the meantime, we'll have to feel our way to being a Better Generation. With the collapse of the World Trade Center, the curtain closed on the decade of wretched excess heralded when Wall Street's Gordon Gekko proclaimed, "Greed is good." When a plea went out on Sept. 12 that the rescue workers needed socks, thousands...
...irony of this strange war is that just as we see the limits of what money can buy, buying becomes our patriotic duty. Perhaps we'd need to buy less if we could learn to accept less upward mobility and slower growth. In the meantime, we'll have to feel our way to being a Better Generation. With the collapse of the World Trade Center, the curtain closed on the decade of wretched excess heralded when Wall Street's Gordon Gekko proclaimed, "Greed is good." When a plea went out on Sept. 12 that the rescue workers needed socks, thousands...
...authority has ebbed over the past year. Arafat condemned the attacks as an "assault on the cease-fire" (and by extension, on his authority) and vowed to arrest the perpetrators. But the Palestinian leader may be facing the toughest test yet of his domestic political standing - opinion polls find upward of 80 percent of Palestinians in favor of continuing the intifada, and the once unthinkable, that is, open defiance of Arafat's edicts, is now commonplace not only among the radical Islamists of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, but even among the grassroots structures of the Palestinian leader's own Fatah...
Mansfield, who called last year for a “general deflation” in grades and for a return to the tougher grading standards of the late 1960s, said that he has been “exhorting members of the department who haven’t noticed the upward creep in grades to pay attention to what they’ve been doing...
...Pine Street, I passed countless people standing on the sidewalks with their disbelieving eyes turned upward toward the Twin Towers. I proceeded down Water Street to Pearl Street, which borders my building on the northern side—the side closest to the World Trade Center...