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...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...
...coincidence that the number of joint attacks has grown at the same time Arafat's popularity and authority have sunk to new lows. Since the Authority has never allowed much room for internal dissent, the joint operations have become a new outlet through which to criticize and embarrass Arafat. "We in Fatah are the ones who shouldered the burden of the peace project," says a West Bank security official, citing the group's work in building Authority institutions. "But in spite of what we have suffered, Arafat doesn't listen...
...very soberly to make an entire 2 1/2-hr. movie in the spirit of Saving Private Ryan's unforgettably horrific D-day sequence--and without its "good war" rationale. No such glory attaches to Somalia. The country is today, as Bruckheimer notes, "exactly as we left it," still starving, still sunk in hopeless anarchy. Worse were the implications that the world's only superpower was unwilling to fight in defense of hard-to-explain principles. Osama bin Laden has specifically cited our Somalian retreat as an inspiration for his depredations...
Right off the jump ball, Harvard got out to a good start, something the team had trouble doing in recent games against Northeastern and Rhode Island. Syracuse struck first, however, when Julie McBride, the Big East's leading scorer, sunk her first shot of the game to give Syracuse a 2-0 lead. Peljto would answer right back on the next possession for the Crimson, draining a three from...
...plot in 1995. The supremacy of globalization, the rise of reality-TV, the rise of insidious terrorism: Look At Me contains them all. Yet her prognosis for America seems to be nightmarishly overdrawn and more seriously, fundamentally misanthropic. Though American culture may be plumbing new depths, it has not sunk to the level where “Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?” and McDonalds can encapsulate its essence. Americans may consume superficial, spiritually empty products without exhibiting serious qualms, but that does not mean we are doomed to lose our ability to appreciate, connect...