Political lions and corporate cattle

Published: Feb. 19, 2019, 4:01 a.m.

b'In the last scene of Sydney Pollack\'s beautiful movie "Out of Africa," two lions gather on the hero\'s grave and look out at the cattle on the plain below. It is a princely scene \\u2014 an assumption that the animals below are somehow the property of the lions, to consume whenever they feel hungry.\\xa0For some reason, I was reminded of this scene this week, as politicians from both parties decried what they saw as corporate bad behavior and proposed measures to fix it.'