Section B Read the following passage and answer the question that follows. (20%)
A kangaroo court of liberal-leaning journalists and Democratic state treasurers charged and convicted former New York Stock Exchange Chief Executive Officer Dick Grasso with an unpardonable sin — success.
    This collection of class-envy warriors put such relentless pressure on the NYSE that Mr. Grasso was finally forced by his board to resign. Mr. Grasso, of course, was the man whose Herculean efforts were behind the reopening of the Stock Exchange only four business days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist bombing of Downtown New York.
    But the so-called titans of finance who sit on the NYSE board were so assaulted by the media and political onslaught they actually sided against the man who inflicted the first major blow on Osama's terrorism.
    There was no scandal here. Dick Grasso accepted a big pay package endorsed on two occasions by the NYSE board in return for 35 years of successful service. What is scandalous is that key Big Board officials — like Hank Paulson of Goldman Sachs, Philip Purcell of Morgan Stanley, and

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