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...World Congress of Accountants had everything you could want in a world congress of accountants, except for two words: Arth ... Ander ... In his closing speech, Ricol finally mentioned the Firm That Dare Not Speak Its Name, Arthur Andersen. "It is so sad what happened," he said. "It's so sad, we are not speaking about Andersen." Enron's ex-employees might feel differently, but I could hardly keep from tearing up. Or falling asleep...
...chilled. This is a triumph of free expression. If, on the other hand, criticism is not warranted—and Paulin’s defenders say it is not, claiming his remarks were taken out of context—the appropriate response is not “how dare you criticize me,” but “here’s why your criticism is wrong...
...worry. As with Stoppard's last play, "The Invention of Love," the degree of difficulty here was exaggerated. Stoppard is a superb teacher, but he's mainly a showman, a seducer, an intellectual spieler who doesn't dare lose his engaged audience for a moment. Though the play spans 35 years, six countries and a dozen or so complex political philosophies, the contours are clear. Alexander Herzen (played by Stephen Dillane with that knowing, helpless smile he put to such attentive use in the recent revival of "The Real Thing") loves the play of ideas, loves the possibility for constructive...
Textbook kleptomaniacs will steal an item and immediately throw it away. It is the act, not the object, that satisfies their impulse. "Kleptomaniacs might have started stealing on a dare as kids," says Dr. Jon Grant, a director of the Impulse Control Disorder clinic at the University of Minnesota Medical School, "but it becomes so pleasurable that the addiction takes over their actions...
...Predict Bond's demise at your own risk. How many of his critics has he outlived already? In Dr. No, the fisherman Quarrel warns, "It don't do for a man to tempt Providence too often." Always a gambler, 007 seems to have taken those words as a dare. And 40 years later, it's safe to say we have a response: It don't do for a man to bet against Bond. --With reporting by Theunis Bates/London and Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles