Trimalchio Lives
 A friend in the UK writes in with these highlights from "Spend! Spend! Spend!", the James B. Stewart article in the current New Yorker profiling Dennis Kozlowski of Tyco, the "CEO who personified executive greed."
. . . He used the firm's money to pay for his home, lavish offices, numerous paintings and so on. As the article puts it: ". . . the fact remains that the richer he became, and the less he actually needed Tyco's money, the more he felt entitled to take it."
A party he gave for his wife's 40th birthday was of unheard-of lavishness, not to mention excess. The centrepiece was a huge ice sculpture of Michelangelo's David: waiters poured vodka into its back so that it would emerge from the penis into crystal goblets. There was a cake in the form of a naked woman, and at a certain moment the breasts exploded. A Roman Saturnalia doesn't even come close.
Truly the rich are different from most of us -- especially when they have their hands in the till . . .
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