It's accountancy which has helped senior executives quadruple their paypackets by obfuscating accounts to the extent that ordinary stockholders are really quite powerless to do much about it. That's why I was doing law exams last week. It's all about old-fashioned things. I desperately wanted to believe it too. But the cover story on Bill Gates is a killer, all the same.
Many parents worry about how to teach their children philosophy.
And the action doesn't really heat up until you get past two lead pages and plunge into the dialogues. And for sheer intellectual cold- bloodedness I've yet to find anything to beat the way this author tells them that Christmas has been cancelled, that fairies are utter rubbish or that they shouldn't believe anything that a parent says. With training like this, they might grow up to be philosophers themselves. Perhaps bank managers. In fact, it's absolutely awesome .