Onward Christian Moguls
By MAUREEN DOWD
NYT
WASHINGTON
The second time the beach ball hit me on the head, I started feeling motivated.
Not to become an instant millionaire with the help of Jesus and some cheesy business evangelists. Rather, I felt motivated to flee the 9-hour, $9.95 Get Motivated! seminar at the Verizon Center, which had devolved into a faux beach party with DJs playing ’80s music and audience members tossing around plastic beach balls and dancing to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and Van Halen’s “Jump.”
But I stayed in the church of capitalism, determined to hear what wisdom headliners Colin Powell, Rudy Giuliani, Dan Rather, Steve Forbes and Terry Bradshaw would dispense.
Aren’t these guys affluent enough without whatever exorbitant fees they were collecting for their bromides to the beaten down?
(More here.)
NYT
WASHINGTON
The second time the beach ball hit me on the head, I started feeling motivated.
Not to become an instant millionaire with the help of Jesus and some cheesy business evangelists. Rather, I felt motivated to flee the 9-hour, $9.95 Get Motivated! seminar at the Verizon Center, which had devolved into a faux beach party with DJs playing ’80s music and audience members tossing around plastic beach balls and dancing to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and Van Halen’s “Jump.”
But I stayed in the church of capitalism, determined to hear what wisdom headliners Colin Powell, Rudy Giuliani, Dan Rather, Steve Forbes and Terry Bradshaw would dispense.
Aren’t these guys affluent enough without whatever exorbitant fees they were collecting for their bromides to the beaten down?
(More here.)
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