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...Livedoor fiasco has highlighted inadequacies in Japan's accounting rules, which are not equipped to handle this brave new world of special-purpose entities, stock swaps and other financing arcana. But Tokyo is moving quickly to correct these deficiencies and restore confidence in its regulatory stringency. Among most major M&A players, however, confidence is not the problem. Nomura is reportedly adding 20 people to its 100-person M&A team. Lehman is expanding its M&A desk by a third, and Merrill Lynch and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities have said they too are bulking...
...recruited Bob Casey, the popular, anti-abortion rights secretary of state there, and pressured an abortion rights advocate running for the seat to withdraw-angering abortion rights activists who are key donors to the party. ?The days are over when a Democratic candidate has to check off 18 politically correct boxes,? Schumer says. In a congressional race in Illinois, Emanuel recruited Tammy Duckworth, a Army major who lost both her legs in Iraq, pushing aside another candidate already in the race and, in the process, alienating local Democrats...
...Facchini defended a recent Pennsylvania court ruling against teaching intelligent design in science classes. "It is not correct... to stray from the field of science while pretending to do science," he says. "It only creates confusion between the scientific plane and those that are philosophical or religious." Whatever problems there may be with the teaching of evolution, he argues, should be challenged on scientific grounds. Facchini's argument was not presented as an official Church position, but Osservatore Romano is often a vehicle for the Roman Curia to air its views...
...should have considered, especially in light of Coke’s inability to approve an independent audit into its Columbian bottlers because of unrelated legal proceedings. The DRB may have made the decision with political momentum behind it, but it didn’t necessarily make the correct one. It is interesting to note that Pepsi Co. was charged with the same pesticide violations in India as Coke was, but its products remain firmly on Michigan’s shelves. Whether Pepsi will come before the DRB seems likely to depend on whether Pepsi bashing becomes a similar cause celebre...
...always used the former, because it is short and fierce; copy editors routinely changed it to the latter as more grammatically correct. Terrorism is a tactic wrapped in ideology; terror is an experience, and you can't declare war on one of those. But only now as I listened to the President answer questions did I realize how important a distinction this is, and how success or failure lies in the meaning of those words, and the difference in those wars...