Word: orals
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During the Vietnam war, America's image of the conflict was shaped by news footage of battlefields dominated by miasmal jungle and of an enemy who was often portrayed as merciless and inhuman. But the war doesn't look that way in the drawings, poems, letters and oral histories compiled in Mekong Diaries. Author Sherry Buchanan journeyed across Vietnam to gather previously unpublished material from 10 Vietnamese artists who resisted the U.S. The resulting volume is a moving alternative to common American narratives of the war and offers extraordinary insight into Vietnamese hearts, military and civilian...
...whistle-blower said in written and oral testimony that he and his associates did their best "to stop the most complex and sinister fraud in American history," but that no one at the SEC cared...
Markopolos, who said that he feared for the safety of his family's life prior to Madoff's arrest, read parts from his nearly 60-page written description of the SEC's "investigative ineptitude" and "financial illiteracy." At the start of his oral statement, Markopolos injected a bit of metaphorical humor into his charge, describing the SEC as a regulatory agency that "roars like a mouse and fights like a flea." With the sober, academic look of an accountant, the former investment manager for Rampart Investment Management in Boston (he is currently an independent certified fraud examiner) detailed Madoff...
...second half of his testimony, both oral and written, Markopolos outlined his recommendations for fixing the SEC. Markopolos said that "right now investors are afraid." He cited investor fears of banks, insurance companies, brokerage firms, credit rating agencies, investment manager, and the country's regulatory agencies, including the Federal Reserve and the Treasury. In a backhanded compliment, Markopolos said the SEC is a "bad regulator, but the best of a very sorry lot," though at one point he also suggested that it might be better to disband it or merge it with another agency. The bigger fix, he said...
...America has changed dramatically, and young people don't have any real notion as to how much. When I first published Playboy, nice young people did not live together before they got married. Having a baby out of wedlock was a scandal that drove some people to suicide. Oral sex was illegal. Playboy played a major part in changing all that...