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...what good is exercising more going to do the economy? So herewith, 10 resolutions for the new economic year - made on behalf of the people who can actually carry them out. 1. SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt resolves to take the proper lesson from the Enron mess and commission his predecessor, the eternally vigilant Arthur Levitt, to go to work on the rules and strictures of corporate accounting until someone besides corporate accountants can understand them. Don't stop until the field is no longer the wool over investors' (and analysts') eyes that it is today...
...been having much fun. The conservative Republican was beaten down and marginalized in his behind-the-scenes power struggle with majority whip (and fellow Texan) Tom DeLay, and has been edged aside in the day-to-day House operation by Speaker Denny Hastert, who is more engaged than predecessor Newt Gingrich...
...provost’s office, revived under Summers’ predecessor, Neil L. Rudenstine, currently has one associate provost and four assistant provosts who oversee different areas...
...NATM ultimately suffers the same fate as its predecessor Scary Movie. In the end, the major laughs in both films are induced by shocking the viewer by crossing a line previously believed uncrossable. While this technique produces a few giggles and chuckles initially, by the time the movie progresses to its conclusion, one simply becomes numb to its relentless attacks on good taste. It may be not another teen movie, but it’s not another Airplane! either. —Daniel...
Unlike his predecessor and successor, who instituted and refined the General Education and Core curricula respectively, Pusey did not introduce sweeping change to College academics...