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...Chairman Carl Levin of the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (which issued the study) also blasts directors for "failing to acknowledge" their share of the blame for Enron's collapse. A lawyer for the board called the report "very unfair," but it will be welcome news to shareholders seeking billions of dollars in compensation from Enron; they could get a legal boost from the 60-page document. The bipartisan study also raises the likelihood that one-time Enron board members will come under renewed pressure to resign directorships at other major corporations like Lockheed Martin and Qualcomm. Wendy Gramm...
...piece, Kilson placed blame for the recent events at HLS—which included a web post that used “nig” and an e-mail that defended the use of the word “nigger”—upon Kennedy and his controversial book, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, which was published earlier this year...
...There's nothing wrong with a little colonialism - sorry, nation building - but it's not easy to get right. Americans should remember that the old imperial powers got out of the business in part because they never got any thanks for it. Instead, their reward was "the blame of those ye better, the hate of those ye guard." That's Kipling again. This year...
Most people blame idle friends and spammers for the junk that clogs their e-mail In boxes. But productivity expert Mark Ellwood says we all contribute to the problem. Ellwood is the author of Cut the Glut of E-Mail, a slim volume of practical tips on how to "take responsibility" for excessive e-mailing and "find more time for the things that count." Some of his suggestions--use the phone instead and institute a No E-Mail Day--are blindingly obvious. But Ellwood is also effective at challenging the utility of beloved functions like the autoresponder (it notifies senders...
...Blame Game By DONALD MACINTYRE Seoul Virtually the only person italian officials did not blame for their team's shock defeat by South Korea was Osama bin Laden. Italy, the country that invented vendetta, wasn't content merely to point fingers, either. Someone had to take the fall. The victim: Ahn Jung Hwan, who scored the golden goal for Korea that knocked Italy out of the Cup. Prior to his hometown heroics, Ahn was an unremarkable player for Perugia in Italy's Serie A league. Perugia president Luciano Gaucci last week booted Ahn off the team. "I have no intention...