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In the big finale, as men and women in tiny swimsuits perform a nearly pornographic water ballet in a giant glass-walled tank, a row of topless showgirls roars onto the stage on Harley Davidsons while lasers trace American Icons--the Statue of Liberty, profiles of Washington and Lincoln, the flag-raising on Iwo Jima--onto the wings of the stage, and a 15-piece pit band plays Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." Greed, liquor, jingoism, bad taste, and utterly compelling entertainment.
Professors Merton and Scholes have undoubtedly assumed unbridled greed hundreds of times in classrooms, academic conferences, and cocktail parties.
Unions have a reputation for shutting down important services and ignoring public inconvenience for the sake of greed.
There's a kind of intellectual greed going on here, almost a sense of entitlement.
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.