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So far, 80 people are on the club’s e-mail list (though only 17 attended the first meeting) and there are, according to the co-presidents, 30-40 officers. “I like to call my position ‘Grand Inquisitor of the Nature of...
But in the post-Enron world understandability of earnings reports is all the rage. Companies like Disney are voluntarily handing their auditing and consulting businesses to different firms, and legislation to clamp down on the accounting business is on the tip of Washington's tongue. The new Wall Street scrutiny...
Which brings us to the last point, finally, finally, finally: it is boring and predictable to say it, but the Oscar broadcast ended at 12:51 a.m., Eastern time, 4 hours and 21 minutes after it began. A little less loquishious next year, please?
DIED. THOMAS WINSHIP, 81, ebullient, liberal editor of the Boston Globe, who elevated the paper into a top-ranked national contender that won 12 Pulitzer Prizes during his 1965-84 tenure; of lymphoma; in Boston. Proud of his "short attention span" and known for his constant stream of ideas, Winship...
In Santa Monica, a beach town known for its movie stars, the sun shines almost every day, palm trees sway on the boulevards--and the groundwater is poisoned. All over town, ugly drilling rigs mounted on trucks are boring 300-foot holes to trace the plumes of a pollutant that...