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...Skerry sent me a paper on the Resurrection Project, a faith-based organization in Chicago that works to integrate Mexican immigrants into neighborhoods - the sort of program of which Huntington seems unaware. De la Garza, who led the team that put together the landmark Latino National Political Survey more than a decade ago, was harsher. Huntington's article, he said, would not have been published "if it were written by a minority - it's that inadequate and weak, from a scholarly perspective." Huntington makes no reference to the finding in the Latino survey that although 92% of Anglos expressed...
...Bangladeshis live in an overwhelmingly corrupt feudal state, then the knights errant of the system are widely believed to be the nation's policemen. According to a survey conducted by TI's Bangladesh branch, 84% of all respondents who had interacted with the police said they encountered corruption when dealing with them. When asked about this finding, Dhaka police commissioner Ashraful Huda doesn't deny that corruption exists in the force, but says, "We take severe punitive measures against any policeman found guilty of corruption." Though ordinary Bangladeshis have little faith in their police, they also believe the cops...
...networks. His case was devastating: the Bush Administration, he claimed, had dillydallied in its approach to terrorism, ignoring warnings and shelving counterstrategies, getting serious only after the tragedy of 9/11 and then bungling its efforts by launching a diversionary war in Iraq. The day after Clarke's testimony, a survey released by the Pew Research Center found that a remarkable 89% of those polled had heard about his charges. Clarke's book shot to No. 1 on Amazon's best-seller list...
...Arthur Andersen firm, which dissolved after being found guilty of obstructing justice in the Enron case, reduced the Big Five accounting firms to the Final Four. That in part is why audit fees for FORTUNE 500 companies are expected to climb 38% this year, according to a survey by the Public Accounting Report. Top lines for accounting firms already look healthier. Ernst & Young booked a 17.4% revenue increase in its 2003 fiscal year, to $5.3 billion. Grant Thornton booked a 21% increase, to $485 million. The other winners? Smaller shops, which are absorbing business that the big audit firms...
...other industrialized nations on 27 metrics like labor, taxes and utilities. Each country's cost index, below, is benchmarked to a U.S. score of 100. So, for example, costs run almost 24% higher in Japan. The U.S. ranked No. 7, as it did two years ago, when the survey was previously conducted. Among major cities, Montreal, Melbourne and Toronto proved most affordable. On the other end of the scale, Yokohama, Japan; Frankfurt, Germany; and London cost the most. And then, for the true tightwad, there is the cheapest of the cheap: Sherbrooke, a city of 138,000 in Quebec. Everyone...