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...Securities and Exchange Commission's haul this year is estimated to be $900 million, paying the salaries of an additional 1,000 accountants, lawyers and economists. No one expects those changes to eliminate corporate fraud entirely. But CEOs may no longer claim, like the old joke about the drunk driver who gets in a car crash, that they were sitting in the backseat. --With reporting by Barbara Kiviat/ New York

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Bernie, Who's Next? | 3/21/2005 | See Source »

...satellite radio. (That means you, Howard.) George W. Bush last week named a new FCC chairman, Kevin Martin, who talks even tougher on decency than the departed chair, Michael Powell. To emboldened decency monitors, this is a chance to tame an out-of-control pop culture in which drunk Real World housemates have three-ways in hot tubs and shock jocks broadcast live sex acts on air. To broadcasters--and many viewers--it's the censorial hysteria that's out of control, as when Fox, in a rerun of Family Guy, chose to remove the bare bottom of the character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Decency Police | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

...annual West Coast biker convention known as the Redwood Run. (Think Altamont without the killing.) "They had a stage set up with these horrible blues bands, but then Los Lobos came on," recalls Idol. "And I thought, Hey, I wonder if I could sing with them?" "He was pretty drunk," says Los Lobos singer Cesar Rosas. "But so were we. So we brought him on and did Born to Be Wild. It was obvious the guy still had it." Says Idol: "I looked down, and there's all these bikers going mad, and I realized this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nice Day to Start Again | 3/13/2005 | See Source »

...begin to comprehend. “In the end,” Zailckas writes, “I quit drinking because I didn’t want to waste any more time picking up the pieces. I decided smashed, when it’s used as a synonym for drunk, is a self-fulfilling prophecy...

Author: By Joelle Hobeika, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Perils, Thrills of a Smashed Life | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

...bought a domain name over reading period because I needed to procrastinate for exams. Web design is pretty good for that. Now there’s a blog, but mostly it’s just a place to put up pictures of my friends when they get drunk...

Author: By Sam Teller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Virtual Vanity | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

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