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The investors, just like the buyer of the lemon, were gullible, and Goldman played them for all they were worth. committed fraud, then we are implicitly ac- cepting the thin view of Goldman’s duties. I call it the thin view because it is grounded in an individualist vision of economic jus- havior before a congressionalbeforea havior committee the other day, arguing that it gave its investors exactlysaid,theyHelookingwhat were for. in effect, that Goldmansaid anything employees objectively false never to investors selling.productthetheywere about when it created and debt sold obligation specifically a designedto collateralizedlose value. Goldman then bet that the investors would lose and, when they did, cashed in. Goldman formation from its investors. But was there fraud here? Maybe L not. Goldman C as an expression of what most curious about the reasons for our anger and what they say about our visions of a just economy. typically thought to embrace: collectivism. why. 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This is the passionate, triumphant voice missing from the article debate. run reproductive-justice zations organi- across Flores, Program OfficerMs. Foundation for at Women — a the national non-profitmany such that organizations — funds says their innovative tactics ensure the health of the movement: “They’re bringing people traditionally written off as unlikely allies or lacking political power into the reproductive-rights movement,” and their ‘pro-choice’message“beyondgoes or ‘pro-life’ in order to reachpeople for … whom these terms are outdated.” and labor in change, it’s imperative minorityvoices of andlow-income that the women be heard in the reproductive-rights debate. 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Right to Life obviously thinks it important to reach communities of color, so why does direct engagement with these audiences still organizationschoicelike elude pro- the Georgia’s Senate Bill 529 that accompanied them, criminalizing abortion “solicitation” to women of color — were posed vigorously and op- ultimately defeated by a coalition of reproductive-justice organizations run by women of bell hooks and Chandra Talpade Mohanty. Women of low-income color women and were simplyabsent from d A dia campaigns claiming that family planning Planned organizationsParenthood are colluding like in a program of population con-trol. “Black Children are an at 7 pm at th W) weighed O N June 12 June NYC 172 Allen Street, Bookstore, Bluestockings $5 - $10 • Reservations:Donation 212-777-6028 te to Older Femi-Older to te tional Organiza- a o IST!” announced a N N ung representatives X o ortionGang.org, a blog E Y

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SITI Company’s productionbobrauschenbergamerica of is sented pre- as part of Dance Workshop’s Guest Theater Artist Series, a subsidized,rentalprogramcurated serving a wide range of dance and performance artists from around the world. The play runs through May 16, with post-performancetalks on dancetheaterworkshop.org selected or for dates. details. Visit ne Bogart, SITI Bobrauschenber- n A t this unusual character devel- Bogart, a vanguard of the Directed by e opment is just as important to the play as a whole as are the delight- ful, seemingly non-sequitur ments mo- that change nothing, suchas a man in a chicken suit ing cross- the stage, or Phil the Trucker, played by a charming gulsrud, telling jokes. Leon In- avant-garde theater, is one of the early practitioners of Viewpoints, Y Company’s production at Dance Theater teases out Workshop the narrative threads in this delicately collage, particularly in some of the romantic relationships that emerge. 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