KPMG Sued by New Century Trustee Over Subprime Lender’s Demise By Sophia Pearson - April 2‚ 2009 00:36 EDT April 2 (Bloomberg) -- KPMG International‚ which oversees the fourth-largest U.S. accounting firm‚ was sued by the trustee for bankrupt subprime lender New Century Financial Corp. over claims it failed in its role as “gatekeeper.” Negligent audits and reviews by KPMG LLP‚ the U.S. member firm of KPMG International‚ led to New Century’s collapse‚ according to lawsuits filed yesterday
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definition‚ it is clear to me that Socrates was wise in every aspect of the word. He shows this wisdom while on trial for his life. Socrates was charged with “corrupting the youth of Athens” and “not believing in the gods the states believes in‚ but in new spiritual being” (Plato‚ 3). In ancient Greece‚ judicial proceedings could be initiated by any citizen‚ and in Socrates’ case‚ Meletus was the initiator. These charges were brought to a trial that was presided over by the king Archon. The number
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France was a policy that was known to be horrific. Even though this ideology was violent in nature‚ Robespierre thought that it was completely justified. Robespierre made very clear that the interests of the Republic were of utmost importance. He described how there were both internal and external forces working to dismantle the Republic‚ and that the supporters of the Republic should value reason while the Republic’s enemies should experience terror. He made a point that terror in this case was not
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economic openness. In a deeper sense‚ it was a strategic ideology that promoted a new international order based on altruistic ideals while providing the international framework that protected and advanced American economic and security interests. One of the main promises of Wilsonianism included national self-determination but the reality of the postwar situation limited the implementation of this principle. Wilson’s desire to have people establish their own nations was evident in his “Fourteen Points”
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Was Freedom Given Or Demanded? Was freedom be given or demanded? I think that freedom was demanded. Freedom was defiantly demanded by Martin Luther King Jr.‚ was taken from Juan in the Censors‚ and never given to women in Reading Lolita in Tehran. Right now freedom is automatically given to us. In these 3 stories freedom was a major problem. On August 28‚ 1963 in Washington D.C Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech that talked about how freedom should be given to all men or woman no matter what
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Our technology is developing by leaps and bounds‚ which constantly afford us tremendous assistance‚ but in terms of simplifying people lives‚ we should not neglect its adverse effects. Modern technology complicates our lives rather than simplifies them. The constant development of technology brings about/generates new and increasingly complicated knowledge‚ which we must understood or even mastered as it’s people’s survivable necessity. People truly have to learn more techniques than ever before
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It is difficult to believe that something as insignificant as a piece of string could cause a person to lose his mind and eventually die‚ but in Guy de Maupassant’s short story‚ The String‚ the reader is asked to accept such an extreme premise. De Maupassant masterfully uses the setting of a rural French town and it’s market-place to help reveal the character of everyday peasant Maître Hauchecome‚ thereby making the story believable. De Maupassant introduces the town of Goderville in France by
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Was Lincoln a racist? Thinking like a Historian In August of 1858 Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas meet for a series of speeches. Lincoln was interested in taking Douglas’s spot in the Senate. Back in those days many people felt that the blacks were inferior to the white race. Most felt that the white race was the highest ranking race. Lincoln seemed to contradict himself in his response to Douglas. In Lincoln’s response to Douglas (source 3:2) he states that he “has no purpose directly or indirectly
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If you were to have a foreign exchange student would you openly take them in to stay with you and feed them? Well that was what the Greeks thought was honorable in their culture. Whether it was a king or a beggar they would be accepted in and treated as a guest in the same ways. Most Greeks were very honorable and would accept whomever would arrive to their living state. In addition the odyssey‚ Odysseus has people who openly take him in and people who are keen on throwing him out or in some cases
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{draw:g} {draw:g} {draw:g} Table of Contents Introduction Who was Charles Darwin? Charles Darwin was born in 1809 in Shrewsbury‚ England. Originally‚ Darwin did not believe in the idea of evolution and trained to be a priest before studying geology and biology. In 1831‚ when Darwin was 22‚ he set sail around the world on HMS Beagle‚ a naval survey ship. The trip lasted for 5 years during which time the ship stopped at many places including the Galápagos Islands‚ just off the west
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