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Officials were incensed by: 1) the greed of the smugglers, who charge up to $60,000 per person; 2) the complicity of the shipping lines; and 3) the negligence of Hong Kong authorities.
Finally, you really lost me on that last curve--about Gingrichian buck-raking, and rich old Eleanor inveighing against the greed of others.
Had he done so, it would probably not have surprised the commentators who saw the $311 million purchase of the franchise by Murdoch's News Corp. as final evidence of the sacrifice of the national pastime to the greed and disloyalty of players and owners.
But the moment she berates the "privilege" of those who couldn't afford to make a down payment on her carriage house, or invokes the "greed" of those making 125 percent of the mean per capita income, I'm with Hick, who said to Eleanor during a White House dinner, "God damn it--none of us ought to be wearing velvet dinner gowns these days."
To most participants, the pig symbolizes greed.