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...sheet. Shame can be a useful weapon. At a recent hearing by a U.S. Senate committee, senior executives of the accounting firm KPMG were accused of marketing aggressive and potentially illegal tax shelters that netted the firm at least $124 million in fees. The committee's ranking member, Carl Levin, excoriated the firm's leaders in public, comments widely seen as forcing some of them to retire early. Hoping to regain momentum, the O.E.C.D. last month reached agreement with Switzerland to abolish two tax practices it had identified as harmful. It's a painstaking process with no quick results...
...tell you what training we receive—none,” says Levin Professor of Literature William M. Todd III, chair of the Department of Comparative Literature...
...could fairly be described as a diva and prima donna, rarely seeming to let down her stage image. “She adores the limelight and functions very, very well in lights of flamboyances,” says Zakrzewski’s mentor, Robinson Professor of Music Robert D. Levin ’68. “That’s something she take to naturally and always has.” Zakrzewski, a joint music and government concentrator, makes little effort to hide her appreciation for some of the fringe benefits of being a concert pianist...
Perhaps her biggest fan of all, however, is Levin himself. “It was immediately obvious that she is a young woman of enormous talent and great intelligence and street smart and enormous flair. Sometime you have to try to get people out of their cocoon, but Berenika is a born communicator...
...Presidents run scared from the “revelations” which emanate from sources such as Bowen and Levin. They frantically adjust admissions standards and quotas for football players, they institute ridiculous policies like the seven-week rule and they reaffirm their dedication to giving athletes every reason to lose theirs. They pick bizarre places to take irrational stands—a list headed by the ban on postseason participation for Ivy football teams...