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...trade that the difference between a wobbly grocery cart and a corporate auditor is that the cart has a mind of its own. Very funny, unless you had invested in MCI (formerly WorldCom), which recently announced that the pretax income it reported for 2000 and 2001 was just a tad off--$74.4 billion less than it had said, after writedowns and adjustments. Outside auditors have signed off on bogus earnings reports and balance sheets at companies from Rite Aid to Xerox. In some cases, auditors dealt with corporate brass intent on concealing thievery; WorldCom's ex-CFO, Scott Sullivan, recently...
...Jack is rightly proud of his circus career, though he’s a tad embarrassed by some of his costumes. “I do a tumbling and juggling act with kids from the inner-city,” says Jack. As part of this act, Jack sports a leotard and a sequined do-rag. “It looks good on the kids,” he says, “but I just look ridiculous...
...play ended and we emerged from the theater sadder, wiser and more secure in our own normality, reluctantly stepping back over the line into the real world. Dysfunction can be a beautiful and seductive thing, and Private Eyes makes us consider that perhaps, just perhaps, normality may be a tad overrated...
...better hoops players in the Harvard system? We loosen academic standards a tad. We generously offer financial aid. And we make a commitment to basketball...
Laura and I, a tad sleepy from our full stomachs, are led up a narrow gray stairwell. A white door opens, and we are in the Kirkland dining hall, facing a few late-morning diners...