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...spokesperson from KPMG says that the firm's audit of the Rye Select Broad Market fund conformed to all professional standards and that the firm would vigorously defend its work. A BDO Seidman spokesperson says that his firm is not and has never been the auditor of Madoff Securities. The BDO spokesperson also says that his firm's audit of Ascot Partners met professional standards and that the firm would defend its work. "It is unfortunate that these investors would bring legal action before all of the facts are known and seek to blame others for their own investment decisions...
...Corner.” Granted, if one were to ignore the comically narcissistic objective of this blog, whose sole purpose is to allow proselytes to stroke Dawkins’ capacious ego by recounting how his book “converted” them from their religious faith, one could defend such efforts by pointing to their foundation in logic rather than faith. But this contention would only hold true if Maher and Dawkins were proffering agnostic uncertainty in place of evangelical certainty...
...Moved to California in the early 1980's to help defend John Z. DeLorean (the man behind the Back to the Future car) on cocaine charges...
...even higher pitch in the wake of the attacks on India's financial capital of Mumbai that killed 171 last month. Within minutes, the Indian jets were chased back by the Pakistani air force, say Pakistani officials, and retired air force commanders interviewed on Pakistani TV swore to defend their nation. The Pakistani air force claimed that Indian planes intruded as much as 2 miles (4 km) into the country, but the government says it accepted Indian assurances that the incursions were inadvertent. The Indian government, for its part, denied publicly that an incursion took place at all. Pakistani President...
...people," he says. "They hadn't spent time computing projected Afghan GDP and the likely percent of GDP they could spend on security and how many troops that would allow them to support." Biddle says that because Afghanistan can't support a unified force big enough to defend itself, provincial authorities and their militias will have to pick up the slack. "Going to a decentralized Afghan end state - with local authorities providing their own security - means the national government's security apparatus can be much smaller," Biddle says. The bad news, of course, is that many such provincial officials...