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HLS’s previous policy on military recruitment was not an outright ban, but a compromise in which both sides were able to meet their objectives. The military was allowed some access to the valuable resource of Harvard law students by going through the Harvard Law School Veteran’s Association. The University stood by its principles by not officially allowing on-campus recruiters for the military, whose “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy is in direct violation of Harvard’s nondiscrimination policy. This compromise...
...structure and, as such, shares responsibility for the band's terrorist actions. The move coincided with a resolution passed on Monday in the Spanish Congress by a large bipartisan majority, urging the government of Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar to petition the Supreme Court for an outright ban on the party - the first such a measure since the restoration of democratic rule in Spain...
...eliminate conflicts of interest among accounting firms and stock analysts. With Bush's support, both houses of Congress beat back an amendment that would require companies to deduct from their earnings the cost of stock options given to executives and other employees, as if they were cash or outright grants of stock. That measure was backed by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan as well as investor Warren Buffett as essential to remove perverse incentives that today encourage top executives to mislead investors. But executives, who get lavishly paid in options opposed that reform, and their friends in Washington sided with...
...tell how dirty the laundry really was." With Enron, Arthur Andersen, Henry Blodget and Dennis Kozlowski all sloshing back and forth in the muck, it has become clear to everyone that the late bull market in stocks was fueled partly with Potemkin profits, partly with bluster, partly with outright lies...
...likely targets would be a country's power or water supply, gas and oil production or storage facilities, telecommunications or banking networks and transport or emergency services. Attackers could try to disrupt these systems during a conventional assault or, even worse, attempt to trigger a disaster by destroying them outright. Most government and many commercial organizations insulate the sensitive parts of their computer systems from the Internet. But it is harder to protect computerized systems from an inside job. This is what happened a little over two years ago in Russia, in an incident that briefly surfaced in the press...