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...suffocating seabirds. For two long weeks, Total stood behind the thin excuse that the tanker did not belong to the company. "What we didn't know at the beginning was that we had a genuine catastrophe on our hands," said Thierry Desmarest, Total's chief executive, later. To re-establish credibility, Desmarest put in place a high-level team charged with devising new standards of behavior and ensuring they are implemented. Cordier, 56, was appointed ethics czar and set up an ethics committee in 2001. He reports directly to Desmarest, and his committee has written a new code of conduct...
...Produce, which is being sued by Guatemalan laborers that claim the firm hired goons who kidnapped and tortured union organizers, and ExxonMobil, which faces claims by Indonesian villagers that the oil company is liable for the brutality of local security forces - both companies deny these claims. "We want to establish that multinationals, which are among the biggest players in the global economy, are bound by the rule of law," says Terry Collingsworth, executive director of the International Labor Rights Fund. The law in question is a once-obscure statute drafted in 1789 by the first U.S. Congress: the Alien Tort...
...running. In one case several years ago, a local businessman in eastern Bulgaria was found with 413,000 deutsche marks under his bed, but got off by claiming that the currency was to wallpaper his room. A new law, drafted with the assistance of E.U. and U.S. officials, would establish tough sentences not just for printing but for preparing to forge currency as well, but it is unlikely to win backing by the Bulgarian parliament until next year. Tougher legislation in Bulgaria and elsewhere will make a difference, police say. But to fight the common enemy, investigators across Europe will...
...statement released about the ASNE decision, Haysbert writes, “The Hampton Script Task Force... continues to meet regularly and I am confident that through their efforts the University will establish clarified guidelines for the operation of the Hampton Script.” These guidelines should not be rules dictating the constant supervision of the newspaper, but rather a check on administration power...
Other weaknesses were mainly the fault of the script. The first act failed to be very interesting, since it’s mostly used to establish characters—the spacey blonde, the apologetic wimp, the alcoholic stage veteran—by harping on their idiosyncrasies, which meant that much of the act’s humor was repetitive and rooted in slapstick...