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...should be concerned," says Lehman Bros. accounting expert Robert Willens. Watch for off-balance-sheet liabilities, a fancy term for financial risks that the company hopes will never come home to roost, and for development costs that are capitalized instead of expensed. These factors don't mean you should shun a stock; they mean you should check its teeth. Firms with aggressive pension assumptions include IBM and SBC Communications. Among the off-balance-sheet biggies are General Electric and Fannie Mae. And outfits in the cable and telecom industries seem to capitalize everything short of the potted plants...
...star-obsessed culture, Rowley is a healthy reminder that it's often people who shun the limelight--strong-willed people with more guts than glamour--who force themselves to step up and speak out when everyone else is keeping quiet. She dresses simply and wears large spectacles that have a habit of sliding down her nose. She takes her lunch to work every day and often arrives long before any of her co-workers. "She goes the extra mile on everything," says Larry Brubaker, a retired agent and former colleague. "Coleen always looks stressed. She is very high energy...
...slowly becomes more common for young women to shun circumcision, the heavy stigma of being "uncut" is fading. Ivorian Banassiri Sylla, 34, recalls the day 26 years ago when she was to be circumcised. "I remember the blade. How it shone! There was a woman kneeling over me with the knife. I bit her; it was all I could do. Then three women came to hold me down. One of them sat on my chest. I bit her with all my might." The women finally let Sylla go, but her uncut status was a mark of shame for her family...
...piety, for phony populism and for any number of perceived half-truths, betrayals, insincerities and miscarriages of justice. But he manages to redeem himself from excessive negativity, or intellectual masturbation, for that matter, by offering at least some valuable direction: “Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don’t be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.... Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty...
...financial worries, the psychological toll of unemployment has set in. Elba Rodriguez, 52, a 25-year veteran cleaner at the Trade Center, wells up with tears when recounting her years on the 4:30 p.m.-to-12:30 a.m. shift, cheerfully doing the dirty work that many people shun. Rodriguez insists, "I cannot stay home. I want to go back to work. The World Trade Center was like my home. Everybody was nice...