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...regulate that? For one thing, as with last year's corporate accounting scandals, boards of directors will get closer scrutiny. Congress is considering a bill that would tighten board oversight of mutual-fund managers and increase the number of independent directors, including the chairman. Spitzer says that an alert board of directors can easily detect market timing using public information about the fund's trading volume, and would never allow fund executives to trade their own funds against the interest of shareholders, as the chairman of Strong Funds is accused of doing. (Richard Strong has said he will reimburse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are They All Crooked? | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

...back yard. (I say “large fruit” because there is some dispute over whether it was a watermelon or a pumpkin.) But Burton was not driven off the fringes of his party; on the contrary, they made him chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee...

Author: By Peter P.M. Buttigieg, | Title: Hollywood Hypocrisy vs. Neo-Liberal Neurosis | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

...provost felt that, given his expanding portfolio, it was more appropriate that the management of activities be carried out by the departments closest to them, while the provost’s office would retain the oversight and policy setting that was important to them,” Wrinn said...

Author: By Katharine A. Kaplan and Elisabeth S. Theodore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Group Riled by Assistant Provost’s Firing | 10/24/2003 | See Source »

Under the constitution, the E.U. would have a stronger parliament, a more visible executive and a Charter of Fundamental Rights with judicial oversight of the entire...

Author: By Alexander Bevilacqua, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ex French President Discusses E.U. Treatise | 10/9/2003 | See Source »

...added that it was important to subject educational policy to rigorous oversight, particularly because of the changing backgrounds of American school-children, a theme he echoed in a speech on Friday (Please see story, page...

Author: By Elisabeth S. Theodore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summers Speech Earns Ovation | 10/6/2003 | See Source »

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