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...seem to make a perfect fall guy. FBI agents met with him on Oct. 3 and, after a 45-minute interview, told him they were convinced the letter was a hoax. Assaad says he is sure he was being set up by the real anthrax killer to take the blame for the attacks...
...dust particles were too large to have remained suspended in the air for many months. The finer particles that stayed airborne would not have blocked enough sunlight to cause mass extinctions. Pope speculates instead that soot from the worldwide conflagrations, sulfate aerosols and other impact phenomena were to blame. His findings prompted such headlines as ALVAREZ TEAM WAS WRONG and DUST DIDN'T DO IT, and heartened the relatively few scientists who still contest the Alvarez theory. Others, however, dispute Pope's analysis and say his methodology was faulty. While acknowledging other contributory factors, they still believe dust...
There are plenty of management shortcomings to blame for K Mart's bankruptcy. But the discount chain got a good shove from the Sept. 11 attacks--and from Enron. Here...
...fact that Enron was able to hide its losses immediately raises the question of why Andersen, Enron’s auditor, did not blow the whistle. Much of the blame appears to fall on the codependent relationship of Enron and Anderson, but this situation is only indicative of a larger problem. The “Big Five” accounting firms often make more money from consulting fees from their audit clients than from audit fees themselves. They have the incentive to turn a blind eye to potentially illicit practices to make sure those consulting fees keep rolling...
...very least, Enron’s Board of Directors neglected its responsibility to protect the interests of Enron’s shareholders and Winokur, as a member of that board, must bear at least some of the blame. We feel uneasy and troubled that his duties as a member of the Harvard Corporation—overseeing President Lawrence H. Summers and the administration, as well as protecting the best interests of Harvard and its students—are so similar to the duties in which he failed at Enron...