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Friday, October 16, 2015
What is Philanthropy?
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"Francis of Assisi” by Cimabue Eleemosynary refers to the philanthropic impulse and it derives from the Latin word ...
Friday, February 13, 2015
The Real Thing
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“Shylock and Jessica” by Maurycy Gottlieb (1876) Most people think the title of The Merchant of Venice refers to Shylo...
Friday, May 16, 2014
The Woodstock of Capitalism
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Capitalism encourages individual initiative. Socialism and Communism squelch it. By responding to the profit motive, productivity is in...
Thursday, January 30, 2014
What is an Affair?
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Affair is an odd word. In French "les affaires" are business (the business section of Air France is called “Affair...
Friday, August 9, 2013
Citizen Bezos
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The Times ran a piece about the acquisition of The Washington Post by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. The price was $250,000,000. “Th...
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