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...than a new driver learning to parallel park. A former lawyer for big accounting firms and brokerages, he started out on the permissive side of debates over whether accounting and auditing functions should coexist, whether the accounting industry needs its own watchdog group and whether measures are needed to rein in stock-option abuse. In each case, he relented only after a public outcry. Now he says tougher action is needed to protect investors from bum analyst recommendations--action that goes beyond the rules the SEC approved just last week, rules that Pitt at one time regarded as sufficient...
...means of staying in power. Sukarno, Megawati's father, played it off against the communists and Muslims. Suharto exploited it to enrich his family and cronies. After he fell, in keeping with the more liberal political winds prevailing at the time, civilian authorities tried to rein in the generals...
...while graduate student council President Shaun L. Rein says Harvard’s salaries for teaching and research assistants are generous, some graduate students say high housing costs in Cambridge combined with a lack of Harvard dorm space make maintaining an adequate standard of living difficult...
...Rein says the GSAS deans have been willing to respond to students concerns on most issues, making a union unnecessary...
...Rein says his knowledge of the petition drive is “word of mouth” and that, when he had asked supporters of graduate student unions to speak at council meetings, none had responded...