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Though it was often cast in terms of moral responsibility versus corporate greed, the wage debate was never over whether Harvard should be a moral employer. Of course Harvard ought to do what it ought to do; that’s a tautology, and no great moral truth. Rather, the debate was over which business practices are morally acceptable, and no one who might have disagreed with the HCECP’s conclusions will be convinced by their halfhearted justification. The committee was charged to debate “the principles and policies that should guide the University?...
...years ago, as my children descended like piranhas on their presents under the Christmas tree, the only attitude I could see was greed. Where was the appreciation for the giver's investment of time and effort...
...year ago, he ruled his nation, presided at the nexus of corruption, greed, vanity and perfidy that is the right of a despotic head of state. He was evicted from power?unconstitutionally he is eager to remind you?by the sort of populist movement that has become the Philippine way of disposing of such autocrats. And now, his suzerainty over even this little hospital room, these grubby pieces of furniture and ancient hospital beds, is only at the sufferance of the general in charge of Veteran's Memorial Medical Center...
...Thriving Cult of Greed and Power." TIME's investigation of the Church of Scientology...
...sort of desperation that the character is unaware he possesses. A lesser actor might be inclined to soften the character and play him as a pimp with a heart of gold. Gray, though, avoids all of the character’s traps, forging ahead with a portrayal that embraces greed in such a visceral sense that one cannot help but embrace him and eagerly follow wherever he leads...