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...children have worms. Treating them costs only $3.50 a student. "So you treat every kid, and in areas where you do that, school absences fall by 25%. They fall in neighboring schools too," says Kremer, "because the worms don't spread. It's a fantastically good buy." Erin Thornton, DATA's policy director, asks how the lab directs its research. It doesn't, and that's why the lab is interested in finding partners who can offer guidance and channel the studies to decision makers...
...DATA lobbied the White House to be an active partner, reminding it that Blair had stood by the Administration in the past. To their surprise, they didn't have to do much pitching. Over beers with some friends from the Treasury Department, Drummond, Hart and policy director Erin Thornton actually heard the words "So, tell us why can't we do 100% debt cancellation?" Debt had been presumed a dead issue--"but all of a sudden these guys are telling us they think they've figured it out," says Hart. "We'd completely flipped roles. Very weird." There were details...
...details left out. But this time it’s not played for unique romantic comedy. Just as in “Grosse Pointe Blank,” Cusack plays a man haunted by his shady past. In this case, his character, Charlie and his associate Vic (Billy Bob Thornton, “Monster’s Ball”) have embezzled $2 million from a mob boss and are being tracked down by one of the boss’s hit men. Cusack as a hard-nosed killer/mob lawyer, without any of the neurotic charm...
...Charlie Arglist, a mob lawyer who, as the narrative begins, has just conducted an apparently successful heist of $2 million on Christmas Eve. The victim is Bill Guerrard (Randy Quaid), the Godfather of the Kansas City crime syndicate. His partner in crime is alpha male Vic Cavanaugh (Billy Bob Thornton, in a sly reversal of the accomplice role from “A Simple Plan”), who may be playing on Charlie’s insecurities for his own agenda.Arglist’s insecurities may remind viewers of the “Cusack Character...
...investors are wondering how so many gatekeepers, including auditors at the accounting firm Grant Thornton and officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), missed the company's alleged book cooking so soon after the scandals of Enron, Worldcom and others. "Everybody had a chance to look them over," says Bill Harris, a forensic accountant at the business-services firm CBIZ. "Four hundred thirty million dollars is an awful big number to hide." Those who have dealt with Refco say there was reason to be careful. In 1999 the Commodity Futures Trading Commission levied $7 million in fines against Refco...