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...deal with from the beginning. The testimony of the two executives will probably not be consistent, says, Houston attorney Joel Androphy, author of a four-volume textbook, White Collar Crime. Although Skilling and Lay probably won't turn against each other-they haven't so far-they may well contradict one another. "Both defense attorneys came in and cross-examined with one hand tied behind their back," Androphy says. The problem was most obvious during the testimony of former CFO Andrew Fastow, when Lay's attorneys failed to get him to differentiate between the job responsibilities...
...nothing else this incident, which has seized the public and political focus in Iraq, shows that in a war of perception reality is not always the clincher. Both sides continue to contradict each other, and though a number of investigations have been launched, evincing the truth may no longer matter quite so much as it should. As an American officer conceded, echoing many before over the past three years, in the propaganda game "the enemy information operations machine is very sophisticated, they're constantly beating us to the punch". An American soldier who advised on the scene during the raid...
...visiting professor from the Columbia School of Business, in an e-mail. Hiscox said he is planning to undertake a major social labelling experiment with a supermarket chain in Italy, which caters to a broad swath of Italian society. While the study’s conclusion appears to contradict established thinking about consumer preferences and price, Eileen Kohl-Kaufman, executive director at Social Accountability International, which is undertaking the Italy study with Hiscox, said that the experiment’s conclusions were consistent with economic theories about consumer preferences. “The idea is to make consumers aware...
...threaten to divide the flock. In November the church issued a controversial Instruction on gay seminarians. To Levada, "the document is very clear. A person with deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not suited for the priesthood." Another tricky topic: Should politicians be denied Communion if they espouse policies that contradict church teaching? Levada would like to see that debated more but says, "There are certain teachings that, as Catholics, we have to accept as part of Jesus' gospel," such as opposition to abortion. "Catholic politicians need to take this seriously," he says. "Maybe they need...
...Pappas' s account appears to directly contradict statements to the Senate Armed Services Committee by Maj. Gen. Miller, who has said that that he authorized dogs to be used only for perimeter security, not for questioning prisoners. Pappas himself will be called to testify at the Smith trial, which could last up to two weeks, but Maj. Gen. Miller last month invoked his right not to incriminate himself and said he would not appear in court...