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Just about the only time the accounting profession traditionally steps into the spotlight is around April 15 or when representatives of Price Waterhouse, which tallies the Academy Awards votes, put in their annual appearance at the Oscar presentations. But as this year's income tax deadline loomed, accountants were getting much more than their historic share of publicity, and a lot of it was bad. After a spectacular string of corporate failures and financial scandals in recent years, the industry that is supposed to audit company books and sniff out chicanery is under pressure from all directions...
...Bernard Bailyn, Donald Fleming, Oscar Handlin, and Stephen Thernstrom...
HARVARD'S DELUXE brochure in honor of the College's 350th anniversary is here. Glimpses of the Harvard Past, written by four Harvard history professors, Bernard Bailyn, Donald Fleming, Oscar Handlin, and Stephan Thernstrom, is a haphazard survey of the growth of the College from its foundation to the present...
...life. Damn his notion that such enthusiasm is "frivolous;" we're college students and we'll never have the opportunity to be frivolous again! If Kurzman believes there is no place for frivolity in the life of a serious intellectual then he has obviously never read the works of Oscar Wilde. Although the frivolity of sport obviously addles the athlete's mind so that he or she deviates from Rightthink (to quote: "The houses with the highest percentage of athletes tend to vote the most conservatively--against the campus norm"), I would argue that such activity helps students retain their...
...unwilling, tries to orchestrate the tempo of encounters, wages war against spontaneity. His every move is being judged by a remorselessly bitchy critic (Charlotte Moore) from a newspaper resembling the New York Times. Her very presence indicates that Gurney has metaphors in mind. Other hints include references to Oscar Wilde, whose epigrams the characters mimic, and a mounted portrait of Hawthorne, master of allegory...