Word: conflict
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That's pretty much what Mary Harron's cool, sly movie has for a conflict. And since Page, though under subpoena, never gets to tell her side of the story to Kefauver, not a lot comes of it. Mostly the film encourages us to giggle along with Page as she adopts more and more comically outrageous costumes and poses...
Only three years after New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer cleaned up equities research on Wall Street, investors seeking advice on which stocks to buy and sell find themselves muttering a familiar question, Who do you trust? Independent analysts who are supposed to be conflict free aren't. Big-brokerage analysts, the "sell side" bunch, are doing better--but they have a long way to go. The answer, then, as ever on Wall Street: Trust yourself and, maybe, your...
...even under the new rules there is no guarantee that independent analyst advice is conflict free. Drug company Biovail has asserted that independent research firm Gradient Analytics wrote a report trashing the company, and that the report was paid for by a hedge fund that had sold Biovail short (a bet the stock would decline). Gradient has said its conclusions were...
...line as never before in a long and storied career. Afghanistan was a highly unconventional war that relied in part on CIA agents carrying bags of cash to buy the loyalty of anti-Taliban fighters. But taking out Saddam would mean an old-fashioned kind of conflict, with thousands of Marines and G.I.s carrying rifles and grenades. A war, if it comes, would be Rumsfeld's legacy. Win or lose, this would be Rumsfeld...
...that question has never seemed more urgent to most Americans. While last week wasn't the deadliest since the beginning of the occupation, it was nevertheless among the most distressing. Amid grinding combat between U.S. forces and the insurgency, a surge in kidnappings and decapitations has infused the conflict with a new dimension of terror. Two American contractors pulled from their home in broad daylight early last month were shown on Islamic websites being beheaded by militants loyal to al-Qaeda kingpin Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi. Their British colleague faced a similar fate. Two Italian women taken four weeks...