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Greed

Wednesday, May 1, 2002

• TITLE: "Greed" One of the seven deadly sins. The others are: pride, covetousness, lust, anger envy, sloth, Dopey, Sneezy and Doc.

• "... Bernie Ebbers ..." This is the Wall Street Journal drawing of Mr. Ebbers.

• "... perfidy ..." From the Random House Unabridged Dictionary:

  (p�r�fi d�) n., pl. -dies
  1. deliberate breach of faith or trust; faithlessness; treachery: perfidy that goes unpunished.
  2. an act or instance of faithlessness or treachery.
  [1585-95; < L perfidia faithlessness, equiv. to perfid ( us) faithless, lit., through (i.e., beyond the limits of) faith ( per- PER- + fid ( �s) faith + -us adj. suffix) + -ia -Y3]

• "... Burr and Hamilton ..." From the PBS American Experience webpage:

  On July 11, 1804, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr met on the dueling grounds at Weehawken, New Jersey, to fight the final skirmish of a long-lived political and personal battle. When the duel was over, Hamilton would be mortally wounded, and Burr would be wanted for murder.

  
  
  
          World War II Poster

  
  

•     Mullings' Catchy Caption of the Day:
  

  
  The Cone Nebula captured by the Hubble Space Telescope's
  new Advanced Camera for Surveys released by NASA this week. It almost seems as if God is saying, "We're Number One."

  (NASA Photo via Reuters) ____________________________________________________________________________________