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...demise of leadership in America dates back nearly 40 years to the time when Franklin Roosevelt stumbled upon the concept that he could be President forever (almost) by having Government confer economic benefits upon the people. The sinister greed that lies beneath the surface in all of us came out in the open and, from that time on, we voted for whatever charlatans promised us the most. Change will come when, and only when, men of character, intelligence, charisma and courage rise up to tell us the truth about ourselves. We may have to wait a long time...
...host of early, pessimistic poems and plays, Lagerkvist, who described himself as "a religious atheist," later developed the starker, more realistic prose style necessary to his vision of humanitarian idealism. In the U.S., he was best known for The Dwarf (1945), a bitter, allegorical novel about human greed, and Barabbas (1951), an enigmatic tale of man's struggle to achieve religious faith...
...YING-SHIH, Chinese historian: Gandhi, a religious saint of the highest moral principles, but also a political leader who worked for the rights of the depressed and disinherited classes. He had no personal greed for power but cared rather for the welfare of the people, using persuasion instead of violence, never allowing expediency to justify a deviation from the truth...
...tries to prick the conscience of the First World for its complicity in the Third World's troubles. He had prepared a biting acceptance speech-not knowing there would be no time to deliver it-for the Harvard commencement. In it he assailed, among other things, "the greed of multinational corporations" and "the injustices of international trade politics [that keep] two-thirds of humanity in misery." Yet, characteristically, Dom Helder's undelivered speech ended on an optimistic theme: his contention that there are courageous minorities everywhere who want to "construct a world that is more breathable, more just...
...spent the past ten years investigating the nursing-home industry, they are often ignored, sometimes mistreated and generally exploited. Despite the $3.5 billion in federal, state and private funds that are poured into U.S. nursing homes each year, she writes in her recently published book Tender Loving Greed (245 pages; Knopf; $6.95), conditions in many homes are so bad that they constitute "a national scandal...