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...active). They are charged with embezzling about $435 million from Elf during the late 1980s and early '90s. While proceedings are only half done, they have become politically explosive because witnesses are providing detail upon detail about seamy but officially sanctioned practices that, taken together, suggest something was very rotten at the heart of French state capitalism. Elf at the time was state-owned, and the most damning evidence to date has come from its erstwhile CEO, Loik Le Floch-Prigent, and two top corporate lieutenants, Alfred Sirven and André Tarallo, the latter dubbed Mr. Africa. They have meticulously...
...left 10 seconds too soon. It chokes you as your boss--say, an editor at the magazine you've slaved at for years--cuts your perfect movie review in half, adds lame jokes...and then, to compound the injury, sends you out to get her coffee, at that same rotten deli...
...most popular film in America is Bringing Down The House, a total suckfest. And the most popular band is Linkin Park. What the hell is the matter with this country?!? What’s the most popular food—rotten fish? Jesus, pretty soon, people are gonna start reading the Indy?...
...Forest Service's restoration options is a plan to take out as much as 10 million board feet of timber from Sequoia National Monument. Although some ecologists say it's a necessary treatment for forests that will wither without resuscitation, from the mouths of Bush allies, it smells rotten to many environmentalists. "It seems as if they've been looking for an opportunity to log," says Jenkins, "and the fires have suddenly handed them a way to get around the usual restrictions...
...Takenaka, Japan's reform-minded chief of the Financial Services Agency (FSA), begin to take effect on April 1. Under the guidelines, banks will be required to declare worthless many of the questionable loans listed on their books as recoverable assets. Designed to force banks to clean up their rotten lending portfolios, later reforms will also likely restrict the dubious practice of counting future tax refunds as current assets...