Greed is Good. This is the credo of the aptly named Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), the antihero of Oliver Stone's Wall Street. Gekko, a high-rolling corporate raider, is idolized by young-and-hungry broker Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen). Inveigling himself into Gekko's inner circle, Fox quickly learns to rape, murder and bury his sense of ethics. Only when Gekko's wheeling and dealing causes a near-tragedy on a personal level does Fox reform-though his means of destroying Gekko are every bit as underhanded as his previous activities on the trading floor. Ironically, Wall Street was released just before the October, 1987 stock market crash.
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Observations from a November 2025 Study Tour
The heat has been turned up immeasurably in the West Bank, where a majority of the non-diaspora Palestinian population is finding it ever more difficult to live. The physical, psychological and spiritual violence from "religious settlers" reached a record high two weeks before... Read more