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...Institutions that call themselves world-class can no longer be tied to the cruelest class system in the world," Roosevelt told a group of about 25 in front of University Hall...
...million under budget. Boasts Pattison, a 51-year-old entrepreneur who owns a Vancouver-based real estate, communications and financial services conglomerate, which had 1985 sales of $1 billion: "I'm not saying this is a no-risk proposition, but I think I can say that no world-class exposition has been better set up than this...
Meet John Ackah Blay-Miezah, native of Ghana, man of the world, a portly, elegant, globe-trotting charmer who seems to awe those who encounter him. "A very intelligent, cultured man," gushed one American admirer. "He knows every opera and can recognize a symphony from just a couple of notes. He is a nationally ranked chess player. He speaks nine languages." He is also, say authorities, a world-class swindler...
Wretched excess comes in many forms. Theologians distinguish the excess called avarice--the sheer, mean taking and hoarding of things--from the excess called prodigality, which is a messier and more full-blooded fault, a form of generosity, almost, but one that has come unhinged. Ideally, world-class plundering should try to pay its way as entertainment. The Romans had a genius for transforming loot into colossally vulgar display, ostentation on an imperial scale. The Emperor Elagabalus, it is said, ordered his slaves to bring him 10,000 lbs. of cobwebs. When they finished the task, Elagabalus observed, "From this...
...week to a joint meeting in Manila of domestic and foreign Chambers of Commerce, she put forth a reform plan for an initial 100 days in office. She promised that she would attack Marcos-inspired corruption "with the zeal of a crusading housewife let loose in a den of world-class thieves." She said she would break up the last elements of the sugar and coconut monopolies run by Marcos cronies, remove taxes on seeds and fertilizers, and cut taxes on fuel and electricity. Her audience of at least 2,000 applauded enthusiastically...