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...becomes clear that Dr. Counter is no longer a suitable Director of Harvard's racial diversity organization. At best he is out of touch with today's racial climate, willing to make accusations about campus groups based on sloppy research or outright lies, and is engaged in publicly putting down individual students...
Hillel Coordinating Council Chair Shai A. Held '93 said in an interview yesterday that the letter was "filled with misrepresentations, distortions and outright lies...
Responsibility for spotting outright fraud, though, is another matter. Says John Hill, assistant professor of accounting at Indiana University: "No audit is going to uncover cleverly disguised fraudulent schemes concocted by management." In the strictest sense, auditors are not required to look for fraud -- but controversy rages about what they should do when they stumble upon it. Rather than inform on clients, auditors usually prefer to drop the account quietly. When that happens, the client must file form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission, explaining why the auditor resigned. But details of the disagreement are typically fudged...
...business that have totaled $150 million since 1983 (on top of already low taxes on corporations). Most important are provisions that permit manufacturers to claim 7% of their new investments against their sales-tax liabilities and that also exempt some of their equipment purchases from the sales taxes outright. The Governor's aides claim that the concessions have helped spur $8.2 billion of investment in new or expanded plants and have worked mightily to promote a 19% increase in manufacturing jobs...
...what your general eating patterns are." Blitzing on junk food for a day or two is no problem if over the long haul a diet regularly contains fruits and veggies. If it does not, popping pills is a good insurance policy, especially important for those who reject greens outright. Supplements are also useful to people with special conditions, including shut-ins, alcoholics and those on very restrictive diets, who tend to be poorly nourished...