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...chorus of dissent from business leaders, investors and even some regulators is rising. SEC commissioners Paul Atkins and Cynthia Glassman have argued against large fines against law-breaking corporations, reasoning that big fines only injure innocent shareholders. Christopher Cox, the new SEC chairman, is expected to lean the same direction. Meanwhile, even in the halls of congress there has been concern that the tough Sarbanes-Oxley corporate reform bill has placed too great a burden?and expense?on companies working to tow the line. Cox has already said he?s going to give small companies some relief from Sarbanes-Oxley...
Lieut. General Russel Honoré has long legs, and he uses them to full effect. A lean 6 ft. 2 in., Honoré strides across the deck of the U.S. warship Iwo Jima as aides rush to keep up. He strides into a room full of admirals and generals and barks out orders. ("I want you to go and get it done," he says, telling them he has no time for progress reports.) He strides down the streets of New Orleans to correct his soldiers' comportment; he strides down tarmacs to waiting helicopters. He strides away from the Governor of Louisiana...
...LOUISIANA ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION NETWORK 225-928-1315 leanweb.org LEAN has dropped food in the decimated St. Bernard, Washington and Plaquemine parishes and pledged to aid in the long toxic cleanup...
...food are scattered in the debris, does taking them amount to theft, or salvage? At one point, police with guns drawn escorted Dr. Henderson through a Walgreens as he emptied the pharmacy of drugs to use in a French Quarter bar turned makeshift clinic. Dudley Fuqua, tall and lean in baggy blue shorts, broke into neighborhood shops and took canned goods, frozen chicken and ribs and cigarettes to his neighbors, who called him a hero. "I was in a building with no food, no water for five nights," Fuqua's neighbor Mohammed Ally, 70, told TIME's Brian Bennett. "They...
...made them mad. T.E. Lawrence, who helped the Arabs overthrow the Ottoman Empire only to see their dream betrayed by politicians in Europe, is a figure whose elusive charisma is perfectly captured in screenwriter Robert Bolt's epigrammatic dialogue, in Peter O'Toole's brilliantly bold portrayal and in Lean's images of a vast desert that one small Englishman filled with his idealism and ambition...