Word: white-collar
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...OFFICE NBC, Tuesdays, 9:30 P.M. E.T. When this verité-style comedy made its debut last spring, it got little love from fans pining for the British original. In its second season, The Office proves it's no one's poor American cousin; it captures the absurdities of white-collar life right down to the uncomfortable office parties at Chili's. Steve Carell (The 40 Year-Old Virgin) is dependably fatuous as a gasbag middle manager. But it's the relative unknowns, particularly Jenna Fischer and John Krasinski as co-workers with an unconsummated crush, that give The Office...
Friday, Oct. 7. “Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream.” Barbara Ehrenreich, who lived the life of a low-wage worker in “Nickel and Dimed,” discusses her newest book, an exploration of the white-collar world of career coaching and networking events. 7 p.m. First Parish Church, 3 Church...
...white-collar criminals due for a sympathy vote? Everyone expected the punishment to be harsh when L. Dennis Kozlowski, the former CEO of Tyco International, and former Tyco finance chief Mark Swartz were sentenced Monday, and indeed it was: up to up to 25 years in prison. But now defense lawyers and, increasingly, many others are wondering if white-collar criminals are being treated too harshly. Some violent crimes, including rape and manslaughter, can result in less than 20 years in jail...
...expense?on companies working to tow the line. Cox has already said he?s going to give small companies some relief from Sarbanes-Oxley by extending for one year the deadline for coming into compliance. It could be that the recent string of decades-long prison sentences for white-collar criminals proves to be an extreme; the point at which the pendulum begins moving the other way again...
...SENTENCED. BERNIE EBBERS, 63, former CEO of WorldCom, convicted in March of orchestrating the $11 billion accounting fraud that toppled the telecommunications giant; to 25 years in prison, the latest and harshest in a string of recent sentences for white-collar executives; in New York City. Under federal guidelines, Ebbers, who maintained his innocence, must serve at least 85%, or 21 years, of the term?almost a life sentence because...