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...profession's revenues. An additional 23% comes from tax planning and the remainder from consulting work. After examining a corporate client's books, auditors usually issue a letter intended to adorn the company's financial statement and certify that the statement is free of errors that could distort the company's fiscal picture. The note often includes the auditor's opinion of the company's business risks. But, cautions Dennis Beresford, chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, the profession's chief rule-making body: "The auditor's signature is not the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval...
...movement anymore; or that feminism's leaders, for all their efforts, somehow alienated their constituency; or that finally having choices allows women the luxury of second thoughts. Instead, she argues, women reject feminism because of a backlash against it -- a highly ; effective, often insidious campaign to discredit its goals, distort its message and make women question whether they really want equality after...
...Faludi has a frustrating habit of pushing her case too far, at times at the price of her own credibility. She rightly slams journalists who distort data in order to promote what they view as a larger truth; but in a number of instances, she can be accused of the same tactics...
...While the American people was able to watch everything that transpired at the Kennedy Smith trial, it had to rely on a nonlawyer's opinion on what happened" in the Tyson case, Bailey said. he added that reporters tend to distort trial coverage to make it more interesting...
...vote flashed on the electronic tally board: 111 to 25. By that sweeping majority, the United Nations revoked the resolution equating Zionism with racism, eliminating Israel's main reason for resenting the world body. Said a jubilant Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy: "It ends a conspiracy to distort the truth...