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Fact of the Week

Fact of the Week

Recently, over 80 directors and officers of American public companies met at the University of Chicago for a three-day "boot camp" on corporate governance. Included in the curriculum was a crash course on basic accounting. Those attending, all of whom supposedly represent the interests and concerns of shareholders, managed a whopping average score of 32 percent on the accounting exam. Those directors surely earn their stock options.

Source: New York Times, 3 September 2002.

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Honoring the Dead with Life
Paul Corrigan

The uplifting story of unselfish humanity is too often lost in the talk of terror and war.

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They Invade a Desert and Call it Peace
Tim Francis-Wright

In spite of Saddam Husseins' manifold sins and wickedness, George Bush has done little to justify an invasion of Iraq.

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