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...gets to the point, period, where you can't cuss on TV, I'm moving to a different country." JONATHAN DAVIS, front man of American rock band Korn, commenting on the Federal Communications Commission's crackdown on indecency following February's Super Bowl halftime show, during which one of Janet Jackson's breasts was exposed
...terms on charges of corruption. (The prosecution said the two had embezzled company money. Their defense attorney asserts that the payments were standard performance-based bonuses.) In an open letter to authorities last week, Chen Feng, the Daily reporter who broke the Sun Zhigang story, wrote that such a crackdown, if politically inspired, could mean a big step backward for China's media. "The will of authorities," he wrote, "will be the black cloud that cages and smothers journalism...
...money doing so. "Auditors and audit committees are now in the catbird seat," says Harvard Business School professor Jay Lorsch. Companies no longer feel free to dump their auditors, for fear of sparking a public spat; no one wants to spook jittery investors, provoke shareholder lawsuits or another regulatory crackdown. "There's more respect for the auditor," says Julie Lindy, editor of Bowman's Accounting Report. "Companies no longer think the audit process is about creating the illusion that they're jumping through hoops...
...consumers by "bundling" them together with its dominant operating system. Microsoft can easily pay the fine - its stock was not overly perturbed by Monti's announcement, it has a whopping $50 bill-ion in cash, and it earns an average of $1 billion before tax every month. But the crackdown comes at a difficult time for the firm. Some argue that it has not had a major commercial product breakthrough in years, despite extensive R and D investments. It has yet to crack the coveted goal of getting a version of Windows into Europe's hundreds of millions of mobile...
Last spring, Gross called drinking at Harvard a “gigantic” problem, but said that a crackdown is unnecessary—instead suggesting a change in students’ attitudes towards alcohol...