Word: andersens
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Attorneys for Skilling and Lay plan to appeal, possibly using the argument that got Enron accountant Arthur Andersen off the hook--the fine points of jury instructions. Like most appeals, that's a long shot. Sentencing for Lay and Skilling is set for September, but with the trial over, 16 other Enron employees who turned state's witness can also be sentenced...
...Enron's former accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, as well as former Wall Street trader Frank Quattrone, have successfully appealed jury instructions based on the notion of willful blindness. When Quattrone's conviction was overturned two months ago, Skilling attorney Daniel Petrocelli told TIME, "I think it's a reminder of how dangerous it is that prosecutors can overreact in putting businesses on trial." In Andersen's case, the U.S. Supreme Court voided a witness-tampering conviction of the accounting firm by ruling that the trial's jury was wrongly told it could convict the firm for shredding documents during...
...Andersen, a resident tutor in Currier who worked as a TF in upper-level biochemistry courses, said that he was “very touched” that his students had nominated him and had worked with the UC to determine the submission problem...
...more serious problem—its mandatory lectures attract few students. The course policy requires all 250 enrolled students to attend lecture, according to Jacob M. Kline, the head teaching fellow. But attendance in the weekly lectures, which are not videotaped, is at a low. Government concentrator Carrie E. Andersen ’08 estimated that roughly 40 students—around 15 percent—go regularly. “There are maybe 10 people actually paying attention. The rest go out of some normative sense of duty,” she said. The weekly lectures...
...else in the world, and it would be a shame to lose them. But at the same time, I think we just really like conflict in France. We always need these face-offs. Here, in the end, it's the one who screams the loudest who's right. Peter Andersen 29, adviser in the youth section, Danish Confederation of Trade Unions Why should employers be allowed to fire young people without a reason? More than anybody else, young people need secure attachment to the labor market. Here in Denmark, young people are given a kind of loose attachment...