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...they take one company, hold it at whatappears to be an artificial book value for asubstantial period of time, and then, shortlythereafter write it down to zero, what does thatsuggest about the integrity of the generalvaluation method," the source asked. "Certainlyyou have to wonder when you see something likethat...
...council did propose that the labs handling the testing be very strictly accredited by an independent agency. It recommended that the odds of an error be calculated and presented to juries more conservatively than is now done. But it otherwise endorsed DNA fingerprinting for solving crimes and said the method should continue to be used in courts. That doesn't mean defense lawyers won't try to get old cases reopened or move to bar DNA tests from new ones. It does mean it will be harder for them to succeed than they might have thought just a few days...
...there a way to prevent abuses? The best method may be to arouse global indignation. To that end, Amnesty International publishes regular notices of outrages against environmental activists. "The only kind of protection that these people have is for their enemies to be made aware that if they commit a crime, there will be a big repercussion that will embarrass the government," observes Marcio Santilli, executive secretary of the Nucleus for Indigenous Rights in Brasilia. U.S. Senator Albert Gore this month introduced a congressional resolution that calls on the U.S. government to apply pressure on Malaysia to uphold the human...
...writing to express my shock at the letter sent to The Crimson by Dr. Allen Counter and Ms. Natosha Reid '93. Their diatribe is filled with misrepresentations, distortions and outright lies. Counter and Reid's method is to blame the Jews for all of Harvard's evils. And where there are no evils to blame them for, Counter and Reid make some up and blame them anyway...
...method seems restrictive, Hogwood maintains that it is actually liberating: "I don't find it an inhibition; the interesting part of the policy is that the more I scientifically measure up the ground that's available, the more ideas strike me about what one can do. It's rather like having a limited number of lines and rhyme schemes when you write a sonnet: it doesn't restrict your ideas, it concentrates you ideas and in fact I think improves on some of your thinking because of the restriction that appears to be there...