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...After June 30, the seven guards will be offered jobs with Allied Security, Harvard’s largest security provider, according to Herms, a former extension school student, in an e-mail to his watchdog group. [Please see correction below...
...seven remaining Harvard-employed security guards will officially find out Friday that their positions will be eliminated June 30, according to James Herms, the head of a watchdog group investigating safety at Harvard...
...three years in a row, Transparency International (TI), a Berlin-based watchdog, has ranked Bangladesh as the country perceived to be the world's most venal. Corruption in Bangladesh operates with the sweep, intricacy and structured hierarchy of a medieval feudal system, replete with an English-language nomenclature in which "tolls," "fees," and "payments" extorted from the poorest Bangladeshis are funneled up daily through an elaborate web of "collectors," "higher collectors" and intermediate barons into the ultimate hands of criminal "godfathers." Corruption starts on the streets. Every evening a "lineman" visits Dhaka's hawkers, making his way down a sidewalk...
...China's official Xinhua news agency tersely stated that Ding had confessed that the women had "conspired with overseas forces to evade Chinese customs and import illegal goods to China ... and engaged in other activities in violation of China's State Security Law." According to the New York-based watchdog Human Rights in China, which has supported Ding's work, the illegal goods were T shirts from Hong Kong printed with a Tiananmen Mothers logo, which were to be distributed for the anniversary in June. By Saturday, Ding hadn't made any public comment, but her husband, Jiang Peikun, told...
...Watchdog groups, on the other hand, say some of the changes imposed by Sox are toothless. When Congress was drafting the law, "the accounting firms worked hard to minimize its scope," says Barbara Roper of the Consumer Federation of America. Unlike the mutual-fund and securities industries, she says, "the accounting profession never really acknowledged that there was a serious problem with the way it did business...