However pure his motives, traditional his ultimate values or exemplary his professed commitment to old-school American painting, Eric Fischl is destined to be ever cast as American art's oldest living bad boy.

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Beinisch claimed that the attempts by Israel's elected leaders to curb judicial power places the country on a slippery slope whose ultimate end is to destroy the values that underpin Israeli democracy.

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Of course perennially land-rich and cash-poor Chesapeake was seeking to talk up its book at the time it was negotiating joint ventures, but that vast discrepancy between the values that the company was touting to shareholders in its presentations compared with ultimate deal realizations should just reiterate how little credibility McClendon has with investors.

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