Word: london
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...have ever been to O'Donnell Field (given the baseball team's overwhelming success the last four years, too many of you have not), you have felt the crosswinds of the Charles River rip through your bones and turn an erstwhile pleasant spring afternoon into a Jack London story...
...certify their financial books. The auditing of environmental and social reports--and related consulting services--is opening up a whole new area of business for accounting firms, but it does not come headache free. "It's not straightforward financial numbers crunching," explains Glen Peters, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers in London...
Among other things, it means accounting firms need to hire people who may not know a debenture from a dividend, but who do understand carbon-dioxide emissions or child-labor scams. Thus, when the London office of KPMG recently formed its new Sustainability Advisory Services (SAS), it hired the core personnel en masse from the Body Shop, the British cosmetics firm that helped pioneer the practice of corporate social and environmental accountability...
Public-interest groups like the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES), based in Boston, are scrambling to issue guidelines and standards. CERES, a coalition of more than 50 investor, environmental, religious, labor and social-justice groups, has launched a global-reporting initiative to set environmental benchmarks for corporate reports. London's Institute of Social and Ethical Account Ability, a lobbying group, has established recommendations for standards for social and ethical reporting and developed accreditation procedures for professionals in this area...
...Watt and Tracey Thorn put down roots in the New York City and London club scenes a few years ago, after their dance-floor remake of Missing became an international smash. Watt even started manning nightclub turntables. No longer content to be ultra-cool purveyors of trip-hop and jazz-pop, EBTG now adds dance-friendly house beats to its mix. Thorn's magnificently melancholic voice can find its footing anyplace, but some of the beats sound a bit like last year's, and in pop, that's ancient...