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...that's not why we're here--not at the IMAX installation, anyway. We're here for the train. Or, more particularly, it's vertiginous journey. It is all S curves and roller-coaster ups and downs, with a skidding voyage across a literally trackless ice sheet thrown in for good measure. Older crocks will be reminded of the Cinerama adventures of their misspent youths, but this time the process is perfect--no annoying jiggles where the three screens of the old technology never quite matched. There are times when you'll pull back in your seat to avoid some...
...division of roles, but wasn't satisfied. So he asked two trusted members of his staff to mount a quiet investigation. After calling around Parmalat's worldwide operations, they came back with shocking news: a total debt estimate of €14 billion, more than double that on the balance sheet. "Until then, I never suspected the accounts were false," says Ferraris. He knew he had to go to the top. In mid-October he met with Tanzi. Until then, Ferraris says, he had valued Tanzi as "an excellent person, a real entrepreneur" - a charismatic but steady leader...
...from outside investors. That enabled Parmalat to go public in 1990, and plug some of the gaps in its accounts; at the time it had a market value of around €300 million. But as early as 1993, Parmalat allegedly began to invent financial transactions to pad its balance sheet. Investigators in Milan and Parma agree: if it hadn't cooked the books, Parmalat would have posted losses every year from 1990 to the end. Instead, it posted profits, masking its problems with a mixture of fictitious transactions and aggressive acquisition; starting in 1992, the group began snapping up dairy...
...DeMint can be counted on to sing from the Republican song sheet when he takes his seat in the Senate--except, of course, for those times when he doesn't. The new Senator from South Carolina may never please anyone completely, which may be the best way to please everyone at least a little...
...doubt people scanning Ivy League scores last year thought it a misprint at first, but a quick look at the stat sheet made the unbelievable seem unavoidable. Eighty-eight yards in the air for the Crimson. Two interceptions in the game’s final two minutes. A horrendous two-for-16 on third-down conversions...