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...investors are wondering how so many gatekeepers, including auditors at the accounting firm Grant Thornton and officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), missed the company's alleged book cooking so soon after the scandals of Enron, Worldcom and others. "Everybody had a chance to look them over," says Bill Harris, a forensic accountant at the business-services firm CBIZ. "Four hundred thirty million dollars is an awful big number to hide." Those who have dealt with Refco say there was reason to be careful. In 1999 the Commodity Futures Trading Commission levied $7 million in fines against Refco...
...Christopher Lydon regarding her new book, “The Year of Magical Thinking,” at 6:30 p.m. today at the First Parish Church. Tickets cost $3 and can be purchased at the Harvard Book Store or by calling (617) 661-1515.For anyone who wonders whether an account of a year of personal tragedy and grief can be anything more than a chronicle of catharsis that happened to get published, Joan Didion’s new book “The Year of Magical Thinking” answers with a resounding—though indirect?...
...they meet the tuition payments only as a result of careful planning and foresight. In the current discussions over economic diversity, however, my family would be lumped along with families to which forty thousand dollars is a drop in the bucket or a typical deposit into a bank account. The family experiences that people from backgrounds similar to mine bring to Harvard are valuable and worthy, but are also extremely hard to quantify or nail down. All too often in the office of financial aid, students are defined down to a number, their parents’ combined wages...
...lack of depth at wide receiver is catching up to the Crimson, and the 27-13 final score didn’t reveal the half of it. To date, the Crimson has amassed 942 total receiving yards. Two players who didn’t even dress on Saturday account for 418 of them. The Crimson began the season starting two of the top wide receivers in school history in Mazza and senior Rodney Byrnes. Then Byrnes went down on the first play of the season with a pulled hamstring. Mazza injured his ankle in the fourth quarter against Brown. Senior...
...turned on the sprinklers. Oct. 1: 12:13 p.m.—Police investigated a chair which had been reportedly removed from Grays Hall East. The search for the meandering chair proved unsuccessful. 11:44 p.m.—An officer responded to Vanderbilt Hall, room 337, on account of a loud party, in which its occupants were incessantly pushing emergency buttons. Police arrived but all had quieted down. Oct. 2: 12:58 a.m.—An officer observed a drove of students waiting for the shuttle bus outside of Cabot. The officer provided taxicabs and cruiser escorts...