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...Second case in point: the month of January. The brave new year started out gangbusters, with the Dow opening Jan. 2 at 10021 and the NASDAQ at 1979 and closing the holiday-shortened week three days later at 10259 for the industrials and 2059 for the techs, respectively. Those were gains in the 10-20 percent range, gains that had the pundits gleefully talking about "the January effect" and noting how good starts, historically, make for good years...
...other Enron-like situations out there," says Arthur Levitt, the activist former sec chairman. "Financial legerdemain from seduced audit committees, compromised accountants and inadequate standards could certainly crop up again at other U.S. companies." At the moment, the public's best protection against that sort of surprise is other brave whistle-blowers like Sherron Watkins...
...work on its $20 million, 900-space Capital City Parking Garage, which offers monthly parkers such amenities as video- and audiotape rentals, car washes and car repairs--including a jump-start service for stalled vehicles. "The idea is to park your car and not have to go out and brave Minnesota weather," explains Tom Collins, spokesman for the authority...
...better understand "the mesmerizing force of the Chinese myth as well as the reasons why some people are brave or mad enough to challenge it," Buruma seeks out a wide and remarkably varied group of dissidents. The tour begins among the exiles in the U.S., and moves through the Chinese periphery?Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong?before wending its way through the P.R.C. to Beijing. What emerges from the journey is a detailed map of the international landscape of Chinese heterodoxies, an encyclopedic Who's Who of troublemakers that is engagingly anecdotal, often surprising and deeply insightful. Readers already acquainted...
Simmons called the Controlled Choice Plan a “brave new step...