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...difference between this case and other hedge fund frauds in which auditors have been held liable is that Madoff was not actually a client of any of the large auditing firms. Madoff's firm used the small New City, N.Y., accounting firm Friehling & Horowitz - which reportedly had offices in a strip mall and had only three employees, including a secretary, an accountant and a partner in his seventies who lived in Florida. Industry experts now say that the size of Madoff's accounting firm should have been a giant red flag...
...time, the shuttle had flown 290 people, and out of those 14 were dead - nearly one in 20," says Scott Horowitz, a four-time shuttle veteran who designed the Ares 1, one of the new boosters. "We needed something that was an order of magnitude safer...
...dust-up between Griffin and Garver is said to have occurred last week at a book launch party in Washington when, according to the Sentinel, a red-faced Griffin told Garver she was "not qualified" to make engineering decisions. Horowitz, who was not at the party but knows the NASA boss well, says he doubts that Griffin raised his voice...
...political frustration with no productive (not to mention logical) end. Nor does it prevent the measures this dogma engenders, including calls for universities to hire only “apolitical” faculty members. In reality, many conservative hawks who support such measures, including the notorious David Horowitz, are precisely the sources of the political radicalism they publicly decry—only on the far right. Horowitz’s stated intention, to “teach students how to think, not what to think,” is a laudable one—yet his sponsoring of such...
...People who are still wary of Obama’s ability to protect Israel need look no further than some of the people who have praised him. After meeting with Obama, David Horowitz, the editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post, wrote that Obama “knew precisely what he wanted to say about the most intricate issues confronting and concerning Israel.” Horowitz contrasted this in his description of McCain, who he said “looked to [Senator Joe] Lieberman several times for reassurance on his answers and seemed a little flummoxed...