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...same way that ballroom dancing, which is currently rebranding itself as Dancesport and applying to be included in the Olympic Games, is today less Fred-and-Ginger and more Britney Spears, ice dancing is looking to attract a wider sports audience - but not one that turns up in dirty raincoats...
...from auditing and consulting for the same clients and forced companies to publicly disclose more liabilities, such as executive stock options. Each time Congress quashed Levitt's efforts. But that opposition was gone at last week's hearing. "Perhaps the era of self-regulation is over," said Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson. But President Bush's SEC chairman, Harvey Pitt, doesn't share Levitt's concerns. As a lawyer and lobbyist for the accounting industry for more than 20 years, Pitt led the fight against Levitt's proposals. Now he's pressing for a new industry-funded oversight board...
...Enron mess, hearings on Capital Hill began today. Joe Lieberman, positioning himself for 2004 from the big chair at the Governmental Affairs Committee, is running the Democratic show in the Senate. He'll be trying to stay centrist with fellow Democrat Carl Levin on his left and Fred Thompson on his right - and $11,500 from Arthur Andersen and $2,000 from Enron since 1989 in his pocket. In the House, the Republicans are eager to show they can be tough on Big Business too - James Greenwood, chairman of the Energy and Commerce oversight committee (a wholly owned subsidiary...
About half an hour into our trip, I find an alternative-rock station that I can groove to. It's called Fred, and it plays songs by Erasure, The Cure, Social Distortion. But wait! Why is my friend switching to that awful techno music? Luckily, we agree on some things. We both like CNN Headline News in small doses and classical music in the evening. We sorely miss National Public Radio (which XM's competitor, Sirius, plans to offer when it launches later this year) but settle for the BBC. And we have a weakness for love songs...
Harvard’s current policy stems from a Faculty Council vote in 1994 that Harvard money should not be used to support students who participate in ROTC at MIT, former vice president for alumni affairs and development Fred Glimp said. The costs of the program are administrative and total about $130,000 to $160,000 a year, Glimp said...