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DISCLOSED, by AOL TIME WARNER, that federal regulators are investigating whether the company overstated its ad revenues by an additional $400 million; in a filing with the SEC. The company, which owns TIME, previously admitted overstating revenues by $190 million, but says in this case its accounting was correct...
...spring momentarily led us to forget this side of sex, Take Back the Night is timed to correct the oversight. Fifty-eight undergraduates were raped in the last academic year, based on the extrapolation of UHS survey statistics. That’s slightly under five per House. Another 154 were victims of attempted rape (more than 12 per house). Most of us don’t need numbers to know when we are threatened, tacitly or not. Why must sex be forever attached to fear in women’s minds? It has been said that reminding people...
...wealthy superpower, going to the U.N generally seems like a charitable thing to do, emblematic of a country with a progressive outlook on world cooperation. Ironically, asking for the U.N.’s approval initially regarding the situation of Iraq has proven the Paul Wolfowitzes of the world correct: Better to ignore or preemptively bribe international power players instead of engage in a sham debate in front of a global hodgepodge...
...Crimson Staff is entirely correct when it says that etiquette is not leadership. But it is ludicrously off-base in suggesting that not making a lewd gesture at a public event is “one of the finest points of social politesse.” Demonstrating a lack of common decency is not the same as carrying out valuable social protest. Publicly showing opposition to George H.W. Bush is understandable, and maybe even laudable. But making lewd gestures at him is not courageous—it is infantile. If Elizabeth Monnin cannot understand this, she should be receiving...
...that weighs on earnings temporarily. For example, the company has stopped selling products made of tropical wood and has undertaken a comprehensive--and costly--effort to ensure that many of the garments it sells are made of organically grown cotton (only natural fertilizers are used) or other environmentally correct materials. "I found it important to do this," Otto says, and since the family owns 85% of the company, there's nothing to stop...