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Anni Friesinger thinks speed skaters are sexy. "Our speedsuits are very light and you can't hide anything," she says. "We have big muscles, but they're not that big. And it's muscle, not fat. It does look good." But ask the 25-year-old German if she said, as has been reported, that skating is "pure erotic," and she'll deny it - sort of: "I didn't say it! They asked me yes or no, so I just said...
...Although Lek and Tip have been in Mae Sai for only a few months when we meet them, they have already learned to hide their inner thoughts. "We don't have feelings anymore," says Tip. "We cleared them out." But they can still dream of freedom, can still tell us they want out. They talk about how hard they would hug their mothers if they ever get home, so tightly no one could ever separate them again. "My mother would be really upset if she knew what I was doing and I desperately want to tell her," says...
...under, and inevitably sometimes with, Burma's military junta to try to counter trafficking and its effects in the area. One of its workers says that since 1997, out of 400 AIDS patients it registered in the nine village districts around Kentung, 380 have died. The government tries to hide the reality, but even where deaths are counted, the embarrassed Burmese authorities fudge the true total - listing complications brought on by AIDS as the cause of death. "No one will ever know how many people have really died around here from AIDS," the aid worker says...
Enron collapsed when the labyrinthine network of subsidiaries and partnerships that it used to hide its losses and inflate profit reports unraveled. Though these practices are not unheard of in the corporate world, Enron appears to have taken them to a whole new level, and eventually its hidden losses caught up with...
...fact that Enron was able to hide its losses immediately raises the question of why Andersen, Enron’s auditor, did not blow the whistle. Much of the blame appears to fall on the codependent relationship of Enron and Anderson, but this situation is only indicative of a larger problem. The “Big Five” accounting firms often make more money from consulting fees from their audit clients than from audit fees themselves. They have the incentive to turn a blind eye to potentially illicit practices to make sure those consulting fees keep rolling...