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...California, New York and Texas - to lead reform in on 401(k) and accounting practices by themselves. "I have no confidence in Congress seeing any significant reform through," she says. "But we represent about 10 percent of all stock ownership in the country, and we can hammer through changes regardless of Congress - if we are emphatic about not investing in companies that don't change certain practices...
...involved in the dubious dealings of Skilling, Fastow and chief accounting officer Richard Causey concede that Lay had laid the foundation by encouraging Enron's ruthless, winner-take-all culture. A band of cocky, inexperienced young M.B.A.s was left alone to do whatever it took to structure a deal, regardless of the consequences. "Pushing the limits was what you were told to do, and you were given the resources to do it," says an Enron manager...
...regardless of who wins, there are real questions about whether the group will still be taken seriously. When the group went to New York in 2000 to examine racial profiling, critics dismissed its findings, calling them a thinly veiled attack on Rudolph Giuliani: the commission leaked its report just as Giuliani was announcing his campaign for Senate. Conservatives have called the Florida report "scandalously biased," and even some liberals have questioned its statistical findings...
...work in The Others may bleed away some support from her more heavily promoted Moulin Rouge role—and, indeed, this split was probably what cost her a SAG nomination—but I think that she’s well-positioned to claim a Moulin Rouge nod regardless. Dench received a rare two SAG nods this year (for Iris and The Shipping News), suggesting that she enjoys sufficiently strong support among her fellow actors to grab her a nomination for Iris—her fourth Oscar nod in five years. Finally, Zellweger’s SAG- and Globe...
Harvard is completely without serious consequences and its students can do no wrong, or so it seems. Regardless how much students slack, shirk or steal, the University eventually tosses a diploma in their direction and they stride into the real world having been coddled by academics and protected from the harsh realities of the real world. Sheltered by brick, ivy and egos, we are taught to feel impervious to everyone else’s rules, according to which people go to jail and ruin their lives for mistakes they made when they were, yes, just...