Word: vetted
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...consulting firm, is mapping out a broader role as a consultant to scandal-tarred companies like Adelphia and Tyco. No clients have yet been signed, but a major one will be announced within weeks, a source says. Giuliani Partners is also helping global real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield vet for security problems. And it hopes to work with brokerage firms to resolve problems stemming from conflicts of interest in their stock-research departments. Merrill Lynch is one of several potential clients. "A lot of companies would benefit from working with us on their difficulties," says Bruce Teitelbaum, a Giuliani partner...
...upset, Chambliss beat Max Cleland. Republican ads accused the Democrat, a Vietnam vet and triple amputee, of being soft on national security. Chambliss is chairman of a subcommittee on terrorism...
...meaning resonate because they are, unfortunately, all too familiar. I have known many people like Lindh, including a few in my own family. During the '70s, one of my brothers ran off and joined a religious cult. In the process, he disowned my family. Another brother, a Vietnam vet, has immersed himself in the Bible to the extent that everything else in his life has foundered. He won't take care of his basic needs because he believes these are the "last days." Ironically, in the search for meaning, one's soul can become lost. Perhaps prison won't seem...
...trek to DeWolfe pays off, especially with field hockey vet Elizabeth A. Whitman ’05 manning the blender. “What would you like?” she asks the posse, “Juice? Soda? Daiquiris?” Hesitant to choose door number three—either out of respect for their athletic regimen or fear of the omnipresent eye of FM—the girls glance nervously at one another. FM selflessly volunteers to sample the goods, thereby putting the newbies at ease. A daiquiri or five later, the first-years are embroiled...
SKINS. Chris Eyre, director of Sundance favorite Smoke Signals, returns with another fearless survey of the afflictions of Native American reservation life: poverty, alcoholism and inadequate education. Lakota police officer Rudy Yellow Lodge and his self-destructive Vietnam vet brother Mogie, raised with Mount Rushmore looming above them, deal with their history and their anger at one another. Having created tragicomedy that is unstintingly political, Eyre put his money where his mouth was—this past month, his “Rolling Rez” tour took a mobile theater and screened the film free of charge at Indian...