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Whitman writes that for the man of faith, "no greater honor exists than for a man to die for his convictions." Several paragraphs later he sums up the nature of the cynic, who, without the aid of faith, is "reduced to a mere animal groping after the desires of the flesh." What we have here is animality versus spirituality. Whitman's reductionism is unfair to both faith and cynicism...
...titans, as the two massive men met at center mat. The match was give and take, back and forth, as the fate of the league hung in the balance. In the end the Brown behemoth proved too much for Ackil and Harvard succumbed, losing the match by a mere four points...
...Nazis from the central banks of occupied states. The issue of dormant private accounts first came up in 1962. Prompted by Jewish agencies and the state of Israel, the Swiss Bankers Association ordered its members to search for deposits abandoned by Holocaust victims. The process netted a mere $7 million, and though only 26 of 500 banks had bothered to respond at all, the bankers considered the matter settled...
While Ovitz is unlikely to settle for a mere job, investment banker Herbert Allen, head of Allen and Co., has told inquiring moguls that he thinks Ovitz would have no trouble raising money to acquire a midsize company--and Allen's clearly a guy who would know--though no obvious candidate springs to mind. And Gordon Crawford of the Capital Group, which controls major stakes in Disney and Time Warner, says he would consider investing in an Ovitz venture. After all, he observes, "the guy was very successful in one career." He's referring, of course, to Ovitz's work...
...into unstable clay. At the same time this internal furnace corrodes the mountain from the inside, rain and melting snow have been softening it up from the outside. The result, in the surprisingly colloquial argot of the geologist, is a mountain gone "rotten." So rotten, in fact, that a mere seismic hiccup is all it would take to unleash an avalanche of mud on the homes below...