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...havoc around the country. Share And Share Alike The Bank of Japan jolted markets by agreeing to buy shares owned by the country's commercial banks, which hold $200 billion in stocks and strain under $355 billion in bad loans. This may be an attempt to halt deflation, but critics dismissed it as market manipulation. A Good Man Is Hard To Find The U.S. accounting industry is now in safe regulatory hands. Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Harvey Pitt named Scott Taub to oversee the sector as deputy chief accountant. Taub had experience on the Professional Standards Group...
...Harvard students are excellent at what they do and so they take on too much,” Ducey says. “They have an internal critic that pushes them to do too much...
...what's up with Scott Ritter? How did he go from the very personification of U.S. determination to hold Saddam Hussein to the agreements signed at the end of the Gulf War to a vocal and committed critic of the U.S. government's efforts to oust the Iraqi leader? There are no clear answers. Ritter has never lacked for personal courage, nor for outrage. First he directed that outrage and courage against the Iraqi officials sandbagging his inspection efforts in Iraq; then, on his return the focus of his ire became the Clinton administration which he accused of betraying UNSCOM...
...Ritter made a documentary film harshly critical of UN sanctions against Iraq - a film in which he sought to demonstrate that Iraq no longer represented a threat to its neighbors or anyone else. An increasingly activist critic of U.S. Iraq policy, the Bush administration's move to prepare America for war with Iraq prompted Ritter to fly to Baghdad and attack Washington's plans...
...that formed smiley faces, then peace symbols. Which mood best fits the moment? Berkeley, Calif., the antiwar town, is busy promulgating laws that would ban coffee that's not environmentally friendly. The most popular TV show for the year was Friends--whose Manhattan-based characters, notes Chicago Tribune TV critic Steve Johnson, "never seemed to realize the skyline had changed." Applications are up for both the Marine Corps and the Peace Corps; does that reflect good hearts or bad job prospects...