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...cards, including opaque subsidiaries in tax havens such as the Cayman Islands and Luxembourg, to hide the true state of its finances. Tanzi has admitted siphoning off around €500 million from the company to finance other family businesses, but insists that some of his underlings are to blame - they were the ones who devised the accounting fraud, he has told prosecutors, although he accepts ultimate responsibility. One key witness has already emerged: former chief financial officer Fausto Tonna, who has given prosecutors crucial details about the firm's labyrinthine accounting, but insists Tanzi was calling the shots. The scandal...
...East Aceh, Indonesia. The head of the International Federation of Journalists said the rebels had earlier agreed to free Siregar and his cameraman, but closing the deal fell apart because the military wouldn't allow human-rights organizations in to arrange the release. The military placed the blame on GAM and accused the rebels of using Siregar as a human shield...
...networks--which stood to lose hundreds of millions of ad dollars--blamed the Nielsen rating service. Advertisers blamed the programming. But the real blame belongs to a historical force more powerful than a Nielsen box, more pernicious than a stack of bad Coupling scripts and not limited to TV: the end--or at least the extreme makeover--of the mass-media audience as we have known...
...suggested that the 9/11 attacks might have been prevented if mid-level government officials at various government agencies had done their jobs. As for senior officials like Rice or her predecessor, Clinton NSA Sandy Berger, and their bosses, Kean said the commission was still studying whether they share the blame. Rice could face tough questioning. One Republican commissioner says a comment by Rice last year-that no one ?could have predicted that they would try to use a?hijacked airplane as a missile?-was "an unfortunate comment . . . that was, of course, a wrong-footed statement on its face," given that...
...There is nothing particularly surprising in this, but the sense of being modern without being American can be unsettling. Americans like to think that they have defined the modern world, for better and worse. Some Americans blame the U.S. for the woes of our age, from global warming to the rapacity of huge corporations. Others see American ideals-a commitment to freedom, say, or to limited government-as being universally inspiring. "America," said U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Sept. 11 this year, "is truly the light of liberty and the hope of the world...