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...sure you know about the company and have done your homework," she says. In a sign of the dangers of investing in China, state auditors revealed in late January that they had found accounting irregularities at China Life, though the firm says that they occurred in 2002 at a predecessor company to the insurer, which underwent a reorganization last year. Still, says Alexander, "China has come a long way in five years. It's a much safer place to invest now." For the moment, at least, Hong Kongers - and a growing number of Europeans - appear to believe...
...rural Pennsylvania. A churchgoer known for his plain lifestyle, Breen has never forgotten the old-fashioned values he learned as a student. "Humility, service and lifting the human spirit work as well in the boardroom as they do in the classroom," he said. That same week his flamboyant predecessor at Tyco, a sprawling $37 billion conglomerate, was sitting through his trial in a Manhattan courtroom on charges of looting the company of $600 million. Kozlowski, whose extravagance became legendary after he left Tyco in June 2002--remember the $6,000 shower curtain?--had to listen as former assistant Mary Murphy...
...logic all their own. Buying the first album by a beautiful, jazz-inflected underdog was an act of self-definition. Buying the second album by a charming, known commodity shows nothing more than an interest in pleasant songs expertly sung. Feels like Home is equally as good as its predecessor, yet for external reasons, it may seduce only half as many listeners. You get the sense that would suit Snorah just fine...
Hehir led the Divinity School through a period of tumult after his predecessor, Ronald F. Thiemann, stepped down in the fall of 1998. Thiemann, an ordained Lutheran, was forced to resign from his deanship after technicians found pornography on a computer at his University-owned mansion...
...subsequent surveys - and an ICM poll shows that three times more people trust the BBC (31%) to tell the truth than the government (10%), with 49% saying "neither." It would hurt Blair to be seen as continuing to kick the state broadcaster when it's down; as his predecessor Winston Churchill once said, "in victory, magnanimity." But his lopsided victory in the Kelly affair looks like it may become a staple of public discourse. Dyke warmed to his role as the popular boss victimized by Hutton, complaining that the government had gotten to pick its own referee and that...