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...blue ribbon commission investigating the FBI's failures in the case of FBI agent-turned-spy Robert Hanssen reported Thursday that routine background checks over more than two decades turned up numerous tip-offs that Hanssen was spending much more money that he was making...
...post-Enron world understandability of earnings reports is all the rage. Companies like Disney are voluntarily handing their auditing and consulting businesses to different firms, and legislation to clamp down on the accounting business is on the tip of Washington's tongue. The new Wall Street scrutiny just might reinvigorate a market for boring bean counters in green eyeshades - and make it possible for a tightly focused company like the new Andersen to charge a premium for unassailability...
...came less than a month after it was discovered that his government has been investigating bank accounts of activist groups and journalists who have been critical of the Prime Minister, though far more openly than their smear-from-the-backseat sympathizers. (The probes were supposedly prompted by an anonymous tip to the Antimoney Laundering Office that the journalists were members of a criminal organization.) As far as a fifth column of commuters is concerned, Bangkok's cab drivers claim to be in the dark. "We're a tight-knit community. If it were happening we would know," says Uthaiwan Sawanarun...
...filmmakers weren't interested in these incidents, Internet muckmaker Matt Drudge was. When the movie opened, he ran an item saying it had "completely scrubbed" any gay scenes from Nasar's book. Some thought the tip came from Miramax, but Drudge won't finger his source, saying, with a laugh, "Birds have been singing outside my window." A few weeks ago, he raised the Jewish question. Others tried to trace that tip to Fox, but Drudge says he found it himself when he read the book "and the Jew stuff popped...
Changes to music and lyrics are just the tip of the iceberg; interpretation is also crucial. It matters how a TV star may interpret a lyric differently from a classic Broadway belter or a London lilter. It matters that Brent Spiner (Star Trek’s Data) is a vocally superior John Adams in 1776, but somehow his performance in the revival matches the wit or intensity of William Daniels’ original portrayal. It matters that in the second Broadway revival of Cabaret, Alan Cumming delivers the shocking final line of “If You Could See Her?...