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...shareholders' lawsuits aren't enough to scare execs straight, they also face a raft of new regulations. Under the Sarbanes-Oxley law, chief executives must now personally sign off on financial statements. Auditors are poking around with greater impunity, and public companies must certify that they're documenting and testing internal accounting procedures, resulting in "an unprecedented level of scrutiny" for investors, according to a recent report by Huron Consulting. Finally, more cops are on the beat. From a budget of just under $400 million in 2000, the Securities and Exchange Commission's haul this year is estimated...
...their shoulder and attempting to solve every problem. David Stack Yorba Linda, California, U.S. Strained Relations Re Your story on President Bush's visit to Europe [Feb. 28]: Bush's purpose in crawling back to Europe was to thwart the development of a united Europe and to cajole, browbeat, scare or even threaten Europeans into submission to America's policies of global vandalism and institutionalized lawlessness. Some in the U.S. seem to think that the American dead in European war cemeteries are a more than adequate and compelling reason for European subservience to U.S. dictates. That is bunkum. Bush should...
...film continues in this vein for its first hour or so, jumping from scare to scare with a remarkable dexterity that never gets tired, due mainly to a refreshing filmic playfulness. It employs jump-cutting in bizarre places; a couple scenes are sped up for an enhanced psychological effect; and Nakata crafts images with foregrounded objects or bodies that seem disjointed in the frame—a subtle effect appropriate to the film’s tone...
...would not be surprised if they hired a very good actor...to say charges against me that are total fiction,” Saliba says. “It is intellectual harassment...these are scare tactics...
...Having a wide berth for freedom of speech is incredibly important,” says Slater. But he worries that in cases like Diebold’s, freedom is threatened. “Libel is being used to scare people with no credible reason...