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...numbers added up. He faults the Big Board's human-resources staff for not clarifying the amounts Grasso was accumulating through complicated bonus and pension formulas. "Not everyone on the board understood, in aggregate, the total package," he says. To which Nell Minow, editor of the Corporate Library, a watchdog group, says, "Who's running the store? This crisis has made it inevitable that very soon serious change will have to come about on the board...
...addition to first amendment watchdog groups, Greenfield said individual law schools signed onto the suit anonymously as part of the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR...
Barry Sussman, the former special editor for The Washington Post’s daily coverage of the Watergate scandal will lead the foundation’s “Watchdog Project,” spearhaeading the creation of a website to encourage watchdog journalism around the world...
...official: no one in Tony Blair's government "sexed up" the dossier on Iraqi weapons, the charge that launched a thousand headlines and the nastiest crisis of his six years in office. That was the verdict of Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee, the cross-party watchdog cleared to see secrets and interrogate top spies. It found the dossier was entirely the product of the intelligence services, whose independence "had not been compromised in any way." But the British Prime Minister can't relax yet. The committee also said the dossier should have clarified that many of its judgments rested...
...euros. "We now have had 11 years of a floating currency, which has been the best period in this country for the past 30 years," Andersson says. "To have an independent central bank combined with a free market setting long-term interest rates has been a kind of a watchdog against misconduct of policies in Sweden." Some individuals seem to be split against themselves. Jörgen Appelgren, chief economist at Nordea Bank, recites the main arguments in favor: increased growth and trade and lower interest rates. But he admits that he is personally against the euro. He argues that...