Word: reportable
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...issue, of course, is the Federal Trade Commission's damning Sept. 11 report revealing that the entertainment industry has "routinely" and "aggressively" targeted young teenagers in ads for violent product. Democratic White House contenders Al Gore and Joe Lieberman are among the most vocal politicos, threatening the purveyors of music, video games and movies with legislation if they don't make a better effort to protect our children from such insidious forces as "The Fifth Element." More than the other industries, movie studios have taken the criticism with heads bowed in shame, with either stony silence (Universal) or ready conciliation...
...every time Madonna makes a movie: What are they thinking? For the answer, let's turn to the plot of "America's Sweethearts," in which fictional filmmakers hide the harsh truth in order to push their product. The overwhelmingly liberal denizens of Hollywood realize that the FTC report on marketing violence has provided the Democrats a springboard for some good old-fashioned family-values campaigning. Standing on a family-values platform is like casting Richard Gere in a movie. It doesn't guarantee a hit, but it's a decent bet, and even the most hotheaded limousine liberal will...
...With 49 banks and 70 financial institutions for about 32,035 inhabitants, the principality attracts some of the world's wealthiest celebrities by levying no taxes on income, capital gains or dividends. This has long made Monaco a playground for the fabulously wealthy, of whatever background. The recent French report charged that offshore companies and trusts have bountiful opportunities to move funds for individuals whose identities remain hidden. Monagasque Minister of State Patrick Leclercq accused the French of presenting a "clearly biased overall view of the principality of Monaco," reaffirmed Monaco's desire to participate in international efforts to stamp...
Europe's tax havens have historically been prone to abuse. The FATF report said that Liechtenstein's system for reporting suspicious transactions had long been inadequate, that there were no laws for exchanging information with international authorities about money laundering and that the resources devoted to tackling the problem were paltry. The country's laxity was underscored earlier this year during major political scandals in Germany. Investigators found that German politicians used Liechtenstein bank accounts to receive bribe money paid by the French oil giant Elf Aquitaine...
...banking finally freeing itself from the money-laundering blight? Maybe not. The FATF report cited a new and disturbing channel through which money launderers can escape attention: the Internet. So far there have been no cases of money laundering detected on the Net. But that may only mean that criminals are very good at it already...