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Today, the Journal 's Asra Q. Nomani is an island of lust in a sea of lucre, filing a long, long, look at the slow, slow-sex industry known as Tantra.
Big-name country artists have forsaken the form--not only for filthy lucre, but also because mainstream success helps them "lose the sense of inferiority they've had since Appomattox."
The cover package tweaks second-wave Silicon Valley entrepreneurs--business-school grads lured by lucre rather than a passion for the Web.
Here was gospel that cut to the chase: Ask, and it shall be given you; seek and ye shall find; filthy lucre; Eat, drink and be merry; salt of the earth; signs of the times; a law unto themselves.
It quoted Anthony Finkelstein, a professor of software at University College London, as warning more than a year ago: "The public was ignorant, the IT consultants were drawn by the lure of filthy lucre, the science policy experts were seized with a mad-cow effect in which their advice ceased to be rational, the nutcases were declaring the end of the world and a sensible, empirically founded approach to risk was lost."