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...supposed to be, a CEO gets a little nervous when he hires an Arthur Andersen to go over his company's books. After all, an outside auditor's seal of approval - this company's balance sheet is what the company says it is - means he keeps the confidence of investors, and on Wall Street confidence is everything. But if he gets a bad report - like the dreaded "accounting irregularities" - he's sunk. Investigators come running; investors just...
...trade the firm but learned countenances of Jackson, Franklin and Grant, the intricacy and majesty of the Great Seal of the United States, and the classically inspired quiet dignity of each Federal Reserve note in favor of inanimate bridges, futuristic holograms and bright colors would be folly...
...Afghan border with Pakistan? Safe in Chechnya, Iran or even Saudi Arabia? The Pentagon has tabled plans to send additional U.S. troops to hunt in the mountains of Tora Bora. And there was never a chance that Pakistan would want the U.S. to deploy the troops necessary to seal off its 1,510-mile border with Afghanistan. Doing that, says a U.S. intelligence official, "would have taken hundreds of thousands of people holding hands...
...days after the terrorist attacks, Armitage met with Lieut. General Mahmood Ahmed, the head of Pakistani intelligence, who just happened to be in Washington. Armitage, in a tone that he himself described as scorching, dictated the U.S. terms: Seal the borders, provide overflight and basing rights, sever diplomatic relations with the Taliban, and cut off the flow of oil and gas to Kabul. In return, the U.S. would lift sanctions, encourage loans by the International Monetary Fund and--together with its friends in Europe and Asia--shower Musharraf with more financial aid than he would know how to spend...
...weeks ago of the impending move. Powell then held a series of meetings designed to soften the blow by focusing attention on another deal that both sides committed to last month: mutual cuts in offensive nuclear weapons. Putin stressed Thursday that he wanted the deal in writing, "a legal seal on the achieved agreements on further radical, irreversible and verifiable cuts...