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...more concentrated. But even the British have misgivings about the new U.S. legislation. "We must place on record the firm view in support of the principle that regulation of audit and corporate governance is a matter for individual countries," the Confederation of British Industry wrote to the sec. Jaap Winter, a law professor at Rotterdam's Erasmus University who chairs a group of experts advising the European Commission on company law, says conflict should be avoidable. He contends that the U.S. is in some ways catching up with European practice with the new legislation. One example is the stipulation that...
...Allston, a number of committees that have been at work since spring will this winter present initial findings on scenarios for development...
...only child of Chinese immigrants. He spends all his spare time working at his family's ramshackle hotel on the New Jersey shore. The summer guests are "Bennys"?crude young Italians from New York City who vomit in the hallways and copulate in the pool. In the lean winter months, the family rents rooms to hookers and their clients. Lin's unnamed narrator mans the front desk at night and cleans the mattresses, giving him plenty of impetus to do what 12-year-old boys do: wonder, fantasize and wait impatiently for his own turn...
...poll, which also places O’Brien’s running mate, Chris Gabrieli, clearly in first place in the Democratic lieutenant governor race, is an indication of the effectiveness of O’Brien’s summer campaigning. Polls last winter and spring showed O’Brien and Reich tied for first place...
...Taliban may have been forced to surrender its grip on Afghanistan's cities last winter, but it was never systematically disarmed. Its fighters simply scattered into the hills, returning to their villages and, in many cases, joining up with local warlords. Many of their leaders escaped capture, too, most notably the one-eyed peasant mystic Mullah Omar - who has eluded capture by the U.S. despite the widespread belief that he remains based in the mountains of his home province. And the shape of the post-Taliban order in Kabul may have paradoxically helped set the stage for a Taliban resurgence...