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...past two weeks, the SEC has issued a spate of new rules intended to prevent future Enron-style scandals. But under intense lobbying pressure from Wall Street as well as the accounting and legal professions, the commission has watered down or delayed some of these rules. For example, the SEC voted to allow accounting firms to continue to earn fat consulting fees from the companies they audit. And lawyers will be required to report any wrongdoing they witness to senior company executives but not to the SEC--as the SEC had initially proposed...
Jantzen also had two pins, including one over No. 6 Jeremy Spate from No. 16 Missouri, whom Jantzen defeated in just...
...SENTENCED. LUORANG DENGZHU AND ANGAG TASHI, two Tibetan men; to death by a Chinese court for their involvement in a spate of bomb blasts in a southwestern province bordering Tibet; in Garze Prefecture, Sichuan. Tashi, whose sentence has been suspended for two years, is an influential community leader who studied under the Dalai Lama...
...Pistols poster. His tiny figure?at 1.65 meters and 52 kilos, Takahashi looks like a Japanese Johnny Rotten?appears contorted with pain. Takahashi, the 33-year-old founder of fashion house Under Cover, is shaking his head, tugging on his "Nagasaki Nightmare" T shirt and bitching about the spate of anxiety dreams he's been suffering lately. In one, he's at an unveiling of his offbeat outfits when the models mutate into dogs. In another, his latest collection of hand-sewn jeans and vests entitled "Scab" morphs into a Uniqlo horror of unadventurous banality. In yet another dream...
...That network ties in not only JI but also groups once considered to be, no matter how dangerous, simply local insurgencies. In the late '90s through the middle of 2001, JI engaged in several terrorist acts, including the bombing of the Philippine ambassador to Indonesia in August 2000; a spate of church bombings across the Indonesian archipelago in late 2000; and a series of bombings in Manila in December 2000. There was a method to all this madness. The assassination attempt on the Philippine ambassador was a "thank you" from JI to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) for providing...