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...questions of Walsh's actions were intensified by his active efforts at city Hall to push for the passage of some of the strictest ethics regulations in the nation...
...course, at Harvard athletes have always beenrequired to perform in the classroom as well as onthe field. Even with the strictest of academicstandards, Harvard athletics are extremelycompetitive both in the Ivy League and on thenational level...
Responsibility for spotting outright fraud, though, is another matter. Says John Hill, assistant professor of accounting at Indiana University: "No audit is going to uncover cleverly disguised fraudulent schemes concocted by management." In the strictest sense, auditors are not required to look for fraud -- but controversy rages about what they should do when they stumble upon it. Rather than inform on clients, auditors usually prefer to drop the account quietly. When that happens, the client must file form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission, explaining why the auditor resigned. But details of the disagreement are typically fudged...
Most students think they're winning. Alcohol is relatively easy to obtain around campus. And even the strictest bars in Harvard Square are peppered with underage drinkers on weekend nights...
...lunch in their own houses. As long as the Mealtime Messiah kept the certified kosher label away from Italian Day, late-night exam snacks, and special fancy breakfasts, the kosher crowd kept supporting the solid white tuna manufactures, purveyors of the only HDS entree truly in line with the strictest Jewish dietary laws...