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Gorey's taste for deadpan absurdity is sharpened by what he has called his "unreasonable interest in surrealism and Dada." He is a great fan of surrealist Max Ernst, and, just as Ernst rearranged 19th-century engravings into his own fantastic collages, Gorey recombines the elements of forgotten Victorian novels, reshuffling the set pieces and stock characters after his fancy. One of my favorites, The Object-Lesson, is constructed along these lines, piling delicious non sequitur on delicious non sequitur, like this: "It was already Thursday, but his lordship's artificial limb could not be found; therefore, having directed...
...Last year Paul Wenman spent several weeks trudging around the Alaskan tundra to see just how well the firm had implemented its stated environmental and social aims. But Wenman doesn't work for Greenpeace. He was there at the oil company's expense, as the head of accounting firm Ernst & Young's environmental-services group, conducting an audit no mere accountant could accomplish...
...they know best. When KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers signed off on Royal Dutch/Shell's recent societal-accountability report, they wrote that in the absence of standards, "we conducted our verification exercise in accordance with international standards for financial auditing and reporting suitably adapted." Old-fashioned investigative spadework is useful too. Ernst & Young's Wenman says that means ensuring that the actions of a company--or its contractors and suppliers--in the field measure up to principles adopted in its boardroom...
...DIED. ERNST WYNDER, 77, pioneering physician and researcher who co-authored a landmark 1950 study linking cigarettes with lung cancer; of thyroid cancer; in New York City. Founder of the American Health Foundation based in New York City, Wynder most recently served on a federal panel created to evaluate alternative therapies to treat and prevent cancer...
Executive Director of Student Financial and Administrative Services at Yale Ernst D. Huff admits that Yale would want to match other Ivy League schools' tuition if they decreased dramatically...