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...will continue to go from crisis to crisis. The countries of Latin America have been setting forth these ideas. We have a consultation group, the Cartagena Group, that has pointed out the problems and indicated that they cannot be dealt with on the basis of purely commercial or business criteria, and that since the fate of many nations is at stake, political criteria should be taken into account. I believe such ideas are gradually gaining acceptance. For example, what has been called the Baker Plan[*] is based on the idea that there can be no solution to the debt problem...
What does this mean for future prosecutions? The Sarbanes-Oxley corporate-reform law, passed in 2002, supersedes the one under which Andersen was tried-and it broadens the criteria that determine who may be prosecuted for obstruction of justice. Still, says Todd Jones, a corporate litigator at the Atlanta law firm Powell Goldstein, the SEC and the Justice Department are likely to be more cautious about pursuing such cases now, having been warned against prosecutorial overreach. One prominent white-collar litigant, former financier Frank Quattrone, above left, is appealing his conviction on similar grounds and has argued that...
...years later, in fifth grade, when we were called to the playground to compete for the President's physical fitness certificate. The hidden purpose of this cold war--era program was, I presume, to transform the public schools into a vast network of junior boot camps. The criteria for obtaining the certificate were ominously unvarying and exact. If a child couldn't do a certain number of chin-ups or complete the 50-yd. dash in a certain number of seconds, he was failing not only himself but the whole nation...
...Europe. Other countries are picking up on the trend. In Germany - where up to 16% of kids are overweight, including 7% who are defined as clinically obese - healthy eating for kids is a hot topic. This month, the Ministry of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture released the first nationwide criteria for school menus, calling for more vegetarian meals, fewer fatty and sweet foods, and fresh fruit at least two to three times a week. A couple of school districts are leading the way. Paderborn-Elsen, a secondary school in the state of North Rhine Westphalia, began a healthy-lunches policy...
...humanitarian destination of their surplus Crimson Cash. University Hall would establish a process whereby student activist groups (like the Darfur Action Group) could petition for their causes being included on the menu of options that would be available to students. The College administration would have to establish its own criteria for eligibility, but the process would make swipe-card based fundraising available to more groups than just those that have the initiative to sell bracelets and start divestment campaigns...