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...anyway. Bush last month named two other accounting executives to empty seats on the sec: Paul Atkins, a partner with Pricewaterhouse Coopers, and Cynthia Glassman of Ernst & Young. These rookies, like Pitt, face a rough season. "There could be other Enron-like situations out there," says Arthur Levitt, the activist former sec chairman. "Financial legerdemain from seduced audit committees, compromised accountants and inadequate standards could certainly crop up again at other U.S. companies." At the moment, the public's best protection against that sort of surprise is other brave whistle-blowers like Sherron Watkins...
...attention," as Zhao Hong, a teacher of Marxist philosophy in the distant city of Kunming, told Time. And they don't know that a member of the banned China Democracy Party, Shan Chengfeng, wrote an open letter in December asking the IOC to press for the release of her activist husband and "every political prisoner," or that she is serving two years in a labor camp for her missive. Still, dissident Sha Yuguang, who has pressed for democratic reform for two decades, is typical in hoping that a Beijing Games will "bring China closer to the world, which helps promote...
...vestiges of a progressive activist contingent remain on the council, and Lee and Fernandez are not likely to allow it to reemerge—at least in its old form...
...popular president, who many on the council describe as personally liberal, has attempted to separate the student services vs. activist debate from liberal vs. conservative politics...
...only admire the energy thrown into the fight and the motivations of our activist friends. But significant pitfalls lurk in their constant pursuit of the “living wage” mirage...