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...adequate financial controls," leaving some fiscal reporting systems "either weak or non-existent." The audit charges that the CPA left large portions of the $8.8 billion Iraqi treasury "open to fraud, kickbacks, and misappropriation of funds," according to a draft obtained by TIME. The report was written by Stuart Bowen, a lawyer from Texas who became special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction. His audit cites Bremer for lax accounting (on one payroll, for instance, only 602 of the 8,206 names could be confirmed, with no paper trail for the rest of the cash) and inadequate disclosure (the CPA allowed...
...There was some ineligibility in the rules for the club eights,” said five-seat David Bowen. “If anybody has placed in the top five of any event at the Charles in the last five years, they’re automatically disqualified...
...down to the Eliot Bridge and they were just like, ‘No, thanks for coming,’” Bowen said. “We weren’t really in it for the medals, but it was disappointing...
...increasing preference of athletes for social sciences is surely due in some part to their greater interest in earning high incomes,” Shulman and Bowen write in The Game of Life. “Combined with the perception of many people that economics, in particular, is a partial substitute for a business major in colleges and universities that do not have undergraduate offerings in business....Athletes, and especially those who play the High Profile sports, are much more inclined than students at large to emphasize the importance to them of achieving financial success...
...male-female difference is laid out in Bowen and Shulman’s book...