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...cast this hostile stone in a letter last week to the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board, lobbying against a proposal from the International Accounting Standards Board that would count stock options as expenses. As corporate scandals mounted last year, the idea got high-profile support from investors like Warren Buffett. But Berkeley's attack - he also slams accountants, "the shareholder's rights crowd" and media "wage slaves" for supporting the change - is part of a renewed push to keep the U.S. from adopting the IASB's stricter standards. "I'm very bemused by a guy who's running a stock...
...mosque's trustees, it is "widely known" that King Fahd of Saudi Arabia provided over €1 million to fund the construction, the total cost of which was estimated at €2.3 million. The three-story, redbrick mosque has prayer halls to accommodate around 1,500 men, a warren of offices, a shop and, in the basement, a smaller prayer hall with room for 100 women. Toward the end of 1996, the anti-Western cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri became a preacher at the mosque, an appointment that upset many regular worshipers. In 1998 the trustees, using the mosque...
...after the armed forces were integrated, it was only a matter of time before the Warren Court, that satanic agent, would hand down its decision in Brown v. Board of Education, eliminating the states’ God-given constitutional right to not educate blacks...
...with its bellicose, axis-of-evil rhetoric--"It's like yelling at a guy who's aiming a gun at you," laments a Pentagon official--and then downplaying the North Korean danger so as not to disrupt its timetable for a strike against Iraq. Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher told TIME that the Administration "seems to have almost an obsession" with Saddam. "I'm concerned that we seem to be lurching toward war without taking into account what our priorities should be." The White House insists that Iraq remains a greater menace than North Korea, in part because Saddam...
...hardest things was to stare at a handsome face--his. "I usually don't watch my own films," he says. "But this time I screened Training Day and John Q over and over, until I got used to looking at myself." He also consulted other actor-directors. "Warren Beatty said it was a good thing that I also appeared in the picture because it was something I was used...