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...Usher your boo...
Booker (pronounced BOO-kehr, but still what a great name for a resort manager) points me to the compost heap, where there should be no shortage of “verms.” The sort of fishing I’ve done has always been with lures or not-live bait. After shoveling through four feet of partially decomposed fruit, hay and cow shit I faintly glimpse ugly translucent wiggles—not the cute pink type I used to step on in my driveway after a rain or the kind I opened up in freshman bio?...
...Moore's movie to play well in the liberal big cities, and it is doing so. But the film is also touching the heart of the heartland. In Bartlett, Tenn., a Memphis suburb, the rooms at Stage Road Cinema showing Fahrenheit 9/11 have been packed with viewers who clap, boo, laugh and cry nearly on cue. Even the dissenters are impressed. When the lights came up after a showing last week, one gent rose from his seat and said grudgingly, "It's bull____, but I gotta admit it was done well...
...clash of cultures has been more of a slow series of culture shocks (both pleasant and unpleasant), and where a lapse in language comprehension would make things difficult, honest, if surprising, efforts at mutual understanding have compensated. After all, as I played peek-a-boo with the giggling baby girl on the seat in front of me en route from New York, I realized there are two acts that can transcend language and cultural gaps: laughter and frantic hand gestures indicating missing french fries...
...known in the trade as Sox or Sarbox. The 2002 law stiffens accountants' spines in part because it places them under a new federal watchdog agency that will soon start spot-checking their work. That agency, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, also has an industry moniker--Peek-a-Boo--and recently issued a stricter set of rules detailing how auditors should evaluate internal controls. Companies must test these controls regularly, and such tests must be conducted by a firm different from the company's outside auditor, to avoid conflicts of interest. The agency's chairman, former New York Federal...