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While he excoriates corporate boards for too often failing to adequately exercise their responsibilities of managerial oversight, he blames owners--institutional investors in particular--for not insisting "that managers operate not in their own interest, but in the interest of the owners. In this issue, Nat Hentoff excoriates ACLU head Anthony Romero for at first defending the signing of a document saying he would not knowingly hire someone who is on the government's watch list of people who are supporters of terrorism. In many appellate decisions--both state and federal--the court excoriates a prosecutor for misconduct only to decide at the end, "no harm, no foul": The court lets a conviction stand and takes no further action against the prosecutor. |
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