Word: ernst
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heart of the latest documentary enthraller from artful Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line, A Short History of Time). Fred Leuchter won renown for devising more "humane" electric chairs, gallows and gas chambers. Now considered an expert in all aspects of state torture, Leuchter was hired by Ernst Zundel, a prominent denier of the Holocaust, to use his expertise to determine if the Nazi concentration camps had in fact been death camps. Leuchter went to Auschwitz with his bride (it was their honeymoon!) and discovered no trace of cyanide. His methods were faulty, his conclusions inane. He was discredited...
...growing salaries of university presidents seem to be excessive," said Ernst Benjamin, director of research for the American Association of University Professors. "It seems to reflect what is going on in corporations, and, while universities do have similar responsibilities, they are also a charity organization...
Gorey's taste for deadpan absurdity is sharpened by what he has called his "unreasonable interest in surrealism and Dada." He is a great fan of surrealist Max Ernst, and, just as Ernst rearranged 19th-century engravings into his own fantastic collages, Gorey recombines the elements of forgotten Victorian novels, reshuffling the set pieces and stock characters after his fancy. One of my favorites, The Object-Lesson, is constructed along these lines, piling delicious non sequitur on delicious non sequitur, like this: "It was already Thursday, but his lordship's artificial limb could not be found; therefore, having directed...
...Last year Paul Wenman spent several weeks trudging around the Alaskan tundra to see just how well the firm had implemented its stated environmental and social aims. But Wenman doesn't work for Greenpeace. He was there at the oil company's expense, as the head of accounting firm Ernst & Young's environmental-services group, conducting an audit no mere accountant could accomplish...
...they know best. When KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers signed off on Royal Dutch/Shell's recent societal-accountability report, they wrote that in the absence of standards, "we conducted our verification exercise in accordance with international standards for financial auditing and reporting suitably adapted." Old-fashioned investigative spadework is useful too. Ernst & Young's Wenman says that means ensuring that the actions of a company--or its contractors and suppliers--in the field measure up to principles adopted in its boardroom...