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...right: there is no shortage of kids for sale. Across Asia, tens of thousands of children are peddled into slavery each year. Some toil with their families as bonded laborers on farms. Others are sold by their parents - or tricked by agents - into servitude as camel jockeys, fisher boys or beggars. In Burma, some are kidnapped by the state and forced to become soldiers. And, according to the International Labor Organization, at least 1 million children are prostitutes, with the greatest numbers in Thailand, India, Taiwan and the Philippines. It's a growing problem, fueled by the Asian economic boom...
...comes home to try to figure out his father's suspicious death. Once there, he also has to deal with the angry townsfolk, all of whom he skewered in his best seller. Cahill is especially impressive not only because he--as well as the other actors, including Frances Fisher (Titanic, Traffic) as his newspaper-editor mom--has to work with the usual clue-dropping and case-solving explanations, but because Glory Days is bogged down with more character exposition than an A.A. meeting. Everyone has a past relationship to Mike that he or she just needs to tell you about...
...reputations and fortunes of Andersen or Enron that policy people at say, the Treasury Department are worried about - it's that of accounting, and investing, in general. Speaking to (and well beyond) a group of life insurers Wednesday, Treasury undersecretary Peter Fisher bemoaned that the science of making gobs of money had advanced well beyond the science of telling investors "the riskiness of that firm's activities" - just how, exactly, a company was making those gobs of money...
...fear that the financial catastrophes of recent years will continue to haunt our financial markets and questions will continue to be raised about our system of investor-based capitalism on which our economy depends," Fisher said. And closing that "disclosure gap" - not preventing the next corporate implosion, but making sure investors get the warning signs as promptly as possible - with accounting- and disclosure-rules reform is now Washington policymakers' most important...
...Neill deputy, Peter Fisher, got similar calls from Enron's president and from Robert Rubin, the former Treasury Secretary who now serves as a top executive at Citigroup, which had at least $800 million in exposure to Enron through loans and insurance policies. Fisher-who had helped organize the LTCM bailout-judged that Enron's slide didn't pose the same dangers to the financial system and advised O'Neill against any bailout or intervention with lenders or credit-rating agencies...