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...AGGRESSIVE ACCOUNTING] [A little fishy] The company announced in March that it would restate its earnings for the past three years to account for the off-balance-sheet partnerships owned by the Rigas family...
...MAKE COMPANIES ACCOUNT FOR EXPENSES THEY INCUR WHEN THEY GIVE STOCK OPTIONS TO EMPLOYEES Currently, stock options do not count as a corporate expense, even though by granting them companies dilute the holdings of existing shareholders--a real cost. Experts such as Warren Buffett and Alan Greenspan have argued that all publicly traded companies should count stock options as an expense. Yet today among big companies only Boeing and Winn-Dixie do so. Why? The current system is so lucrative for company executives, who reap the lion's share of stock options, that few will make the change unless forced...
...other hand, once a fishing boat picks him up and he dries off, various useful bits of information suddenly come back to him. For example, the number of a Swiss bank account that contains wads of cash, fraudulent passports and a revolver. A little later, when people start trying to kill him, his skills with karate, a wide assortment of weaponry and getting out of tight spots also return...
...Vistica, alleging that a platoon led by Kerrey slaughtered unarmed women and children during a night raid in the Mekong Delta. Kerrey had not spoken publicly about the assault before the Times story and challenged some of the interpretations that were put upon his conduct. Those seeking the definitive account of the attack will not find it here. Kerrey says, quite plainly, "I remember very little of what happened in a clear and reliable way." What he does remember, however, is anything but self-serving; after hearing a shot, he says, he and his men unleashed a "tremendous barrage...
...village of Caythorpe, England, where Kerrey's great-grandfather was born, is 10 miles south of the town of Lincoln, not London. But the book is deeply moving, all the more so because of the spare monochrome of its language. In its simplicity and clear-eyed observation, Kerrey's account of his injury and recovery bears comparison to the famous passage in George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia describing the "very interesting" experience of being shot. No higher praise is possible...