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Righteous Indignation=Greed for Real Estate
  Man has much more to fear from the passions of his fellow creatures
than from the convulsions of the elements.
                                 Edward Gibbon
There is no nation, it seems, which has not been promised the whole
earth....
                                 Elias Canetti
An amoeba making its way through a pond filled with fellow
creatures has a habit those other beastlets may find irritating.  The
amoeba is a sluggish, microscopic blob that wobbles slowly through
the fluid it calls home, looking for something to eat.  When it
encounters some other enthusiastically wriggling micro-creature, it
gradually enfolds the neighbor in a watery embrace.  To do it, the
rubbery amoeba doubles up around the hapless creature, pinches itself
together, and literally surrounds the drop of water that contains its
guest.  Then it sucks the drop and its inhabitant deep inside its own
body.  The ingested droplet now appears to a microscopist as a
temporary bubble (technically known as a vacuole) moving within the
amoeba's transparent form.
The amoeba floods the bubble-like dungeon in which it has
trapped its captive with digestive fluids.  Slowly those liquids pick
apart the proteins, amino acids, oxygen and hydrogen which make up
the body of the squirming prisoner.  The host absorbs the resulting
soup.  Then his metabolism busily reassembles the components of his
erstwhile boarder, this time fashioning them into sections of amoeba.
One entelechy has disappeared.  Another has been replenished.
William Buckley, the archconservative, and Arthur Schlesinger, a
highly credentialed liberal, were arguing one day on Buckley's TV
show about America's budget deficits.  They disagreed about nearly
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