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...Friday, Jan. 19, 2001, the day before the end of the Clinton Administration. ARTHUR LEVITT, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, was sitting in his Washington office. "I got a call from a very senior White House official," Levitt told TIME, "to ask what I knew about PINKY GREEN and MARC RICH." After touching base with his enforcement team, Levitt spoke again with the White House. He reported that the SEC had no jurisdiction over the pair because their business was commodities, not securities. Then Levitt says he took it upon himself to express a view about the proposed...
...patients. The flaw was in a gene on chromosome 1 called RGS4, which controls the duration of signals in a nerve cell. Intriguingly, the mutation showed up in the brain's visual, motor and cognitive centers. That could account for schizophrenics' hallucinations and attention problems, says team leader Pat Levitt...
...drive to clean up what it calls creative accounting--offenses like excessive restructuring charges, inflated one-time "acquisition charges," and most important, manipulation of revenues to produce a predictable stream of profits or mask a bad quarter. "Think about a bottle of fine wine," says SEC chairman Arthur Levitt. "You wouldn't pop the cork on that bottle before it was ready. But some companies are doing this--recognizing revenues before a sale is complete, before the product is delivered, or at a time when the customer still has options to terminate, void or delay the sale...
...election, says Phil Klinkner, director of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center at Hamilton College, each candidate will have to concentrate on mobilizing a solid, if unorthodox, combination of voters. "You've got this interesting mixing up of voting bases in this race," says Klinkner. "She has some appeal with independent or nominally Republican suburban women," while he may be able to corner some law-and-order Democrats. If she wants to emerge victorious, says Muzzio, Clinton will have to win back the women who have become disengaged with her candidacy, by talking about issues particularly appealing to women, such...
...changes in testimony were explosive, and a Sutton employee leaked them to Len Levitt of Newsday, which ran a story in 1995, and to Dunne. Levitt also reported that interviews with a criminal-profiling group discounted the possibility that Littleton, who had just begun his tutoring job, had killed Martha. The savagery of the deadly blows suggested it was the work of someone who knew...