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Public Exit From Goldman Raises Doubt Over a New Ethic http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/business/a-public-exit-from-goldman-sachs-hits-a-wounded-wall-street.html March 14, 2012 Public Exit From Goldman Raises Doubt Over a New EthicBy NELSON D. SCHWARTZ Behind closed doors, it is a conversation that has been taking place with increasing urgency on Wall Street in recent years: making money is good, but is making more money always better, even if it c.. 더보기
Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/opinion/why-i-am-leaving-goldman-sachs.html?_r=1 March 14, 2012 Why I Am Leaving Goldman SachsBy GREG SMITH TODAY is my last day at Goldman Sachs. After almost 12 years at the firm — first as a summer intern while at Stanford, then in New York for 10 years, and now in London — I believe I have worked here long enough to understand the trajectory of its culture, .. 더보기
A Chicken Without Guilt http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/opinion/sunday/finally-fake-chicken-worth-eating.html?src=me&ref=general March 9, 2012 A Chicken Without GuiltBy MARK BITTMAN IT is pretty well established that animals are capable of suffering; we’ve come a long way since Descartes famously compared them to nonfeeling machines put on earth to serve man. (Rousseau later countered this, saying that animals shared.. 더보기
Pass the Books. Hold the Oil. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/opinion/sunday/friedman-pass-the-books-hold-the-oil.html?src=me&ref=general March 10, 2012 Pass the Books. Hold the Oil.By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN EVERY so often someone asks me: “What’s your favorite country, other than your own?” I’ve always had the same answer: Taiwan. “Taiwan? Why Taiwan?” people ask. Very simple: Because Taiwan is a barren rock in a typhoon-lade.. 더보기
Manlashes, Manscara and Mantyhose http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/opinion/sunday/dowd-manlashes-manscara-and-mantyhose.html March 10, 2012 Manlashes, Manscara and MantyhoseBy MAUREEN DOWD USUALLY I’m the one musing about the end of men. But this time it was my friend John, who sent me an alarmed e-mail: “Crying Putin, manscara and now mantyhose. We are over.” Not to mention the new romantic comedy, “Friends With Kids,” starrin.. 더보기
reticent Kim Jong Il viewd Kim Jong Chul as too reticent. In one of his books about North Korea, Fujimoto quotes the Dear Leader as saying that Kim Jong Chul ''resembles a girl'' - hardly an asset in male-dominated North Korea. Reticent Not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily she was extremely reticent about her personal affairs 더보기
Ostensible, Helm This is the country now ostensibly helmed by young Kim Jong Un, just 29 by most accounts, the grandson of Kim Il Sung, the founder of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea(DPRK) and the creator of its core ideology. Helm Synonyms: verb: steer, govern, direct, pilot noun: rudder, wheel, steering wheel, helmet A tiller or wheel and any associated equipment for steering a ship or boat she staye.. 더보기
defiant, provocation Over the past decade, despite crippling economic sanctions imposed by most of the outside world, North Korea has defiantly developed and tested nuclear weapons and the long-range missiles needed to deliver them. Defiance : Open resistance; bold disobedience the demonstration was held in defiance of official warnings Synonym of Defiance -> Provocation provocations plural Action or speech that ma.. 더보기
brethren Nearly 30,000 U.S. troops sit across the border, helping defend the North's prosperous, democratic brethren in the South against a 1.2 million-member army, most of it arrayed within 30 miles (50 km) of the demilitarized zone.  brethren plural Fellow Christians or members of a male religious order Used for humorous or rhetorical effect to refer to people belonging to a particular group our bret.. 더보기
iota It is a place where not even an iota of freedom is imaginable. iotas plural The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet (Ι, ι), transliterated as ‘i.’ The ninth star in a constellation Iota Piscium An extremely small amount nothing she said seemed to make an iotaof difference 더보기

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