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Accountants like to call it "earnings management." Regular folks prefer terms like "cooking the books." Whatever the term of art, there's been an increasing tendency by corporations, particularly dotcoms, to bend the rules of accounting to make their numbers look good...
...ruffian lad-mag sensibility. It was a clash between rival ideas of manhood. Men's mags have slavered over women before--remember Vargas girls?--but with an affect of gentlemen's-club exclusivity. Young men turned to them as tutors in the mysteries of manhood. Today youths prefer populist outlets like Maxim and TV's The Man Show, which toast an uncomplicated guy-hood. Details, finally, didn't party hard enough...
Some of the skepticism originates right on board the Jarrett. "I've never worked for a woman before, so I'm not really sure what to expect in combat," says Personnelman First Class Arnell Ramos. "Being a majority-male organization," he says, "most of us would prefer to take orders from a male officer...
...gets the last laugh. The Memphis verdict notwithstanding, Jowers' story is a fairy tale that leads away from the truth about King's murder and Ray's complicity in it. The real mystery is why King's heirs, who more than anyone else should want the truth, prefer to believe...
Many parents say the test is too long and puts too much pressure on elementary and middle school students. Some parents prefer that their students not take the exam...