Jerome Kerviel, the rogue trader at France's Societe Generale who manipulated the company's computer system to enter large unauthorized bets under someone else's name that led to $7.7 billion in losses -- the biggest financial fraud in history -- is claiming he's being made into a scapegoat for the company's...
You have enough to worry about without having to anticipate ending up as a scapegoat for the problems of non-IT groups involved in the same project. Yet they are out there and could be sharpening their fingers, readying to point. This paper illustrates how the relationship can go wrong, how...
CHICAGO -- Steve Bartman, I have a confession to make. I was one of those fools who dressed as you for Halloween. It was 2003. You'd just become infamous for deflecting that foul ball outfielder Moises Alou tried to catch in the National League championship series, the...
VISITORS to the Colne Valley will be welcomed by four new plaques that celebrate the work and life of local suffragette Florence Lockwood. The Welcome to the Colne Valley signs were organised by the River Colne Project and were unveiled by Colne Valley Area Committee Chairman, Clr Nicola...
IF YOU are looking for an explanation to help you figure out what just caused the biggest threat to our financial system in history, may I suggest a book, "Confessions of a Subprime Lender'' (John Wiley & Sons, $19.95), whose title a few years ago would have seemed humorous. Today,...
FALCONS boss Steve Bates insisted his side has lessons to learn in the wake of yesterday's 44-14 Guinness Premiership mauling at Saracens. Having seen Newcastle trail 15-0 at the break after referee Dean Richards' liberal use of the whistle, Bates refused to use the official as a scapegoat...
ITS SQUEAKY BUM TIME FOR... IAN POULTER Europe are strong favourites to retain the Ryder Cup so should the unthinkable happen the scapegoat hunt will be on. And should Poulter falter he'll have to wear a few criticisms to go with his snappy strides,...
Byline: MARILYN BRIGGS I HAVE just had a thought about a new keep fit regime for all overweight Huddersfield residents. How about communal hopscotch classes on those ugly pink flags in St George's Square? I have coloured chalks at the ready and just need a few...
WINNERS of the Examiner competition for tickets to the Fashion, Embroidery and Stitch show at Harrogate's Great Yorkshire Showground were: Mrs. B Roberts, of Lepton; Miss B Mar chant, of Taylor Hill; Mrs. M Briggs, of Scapegoat Hill; Lynn Healey, of Sale dine Nook; Mrs. M...
Golcar Baptist Church Tuesday Forum's annual general meeting will be held on Tuesday September 9 at 2.30pm. There's an invitation to any ladies in the area to join in. Tea hostesses will be Olga Whitehead and Audrey Stott. Golcar Light - a new book of photographs...
ATONEMENT AND VIOLENCE: A THEOLOGICAL CONVERSATION. Edited by John Sanders. Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon, 2006. Pp. xvi + 170. $22. Four Protestant authors address contemporary complaints that the major atonement theories (Chrisms victor, ransom, satisfaction, penal substitution, moral, scapegoat) implicate God in Jesus" brutal crucifixion and legitimate worldly abuses...
STANFORD, Calif. -- When a company does badly, no manager likes to be blamed for things that were really outside his control--like a general downturn in the economy. That goes especially for chief executives. But do boards really take external factors into account when giving CEOs the ax? ...
Byline: JGRAUSON, Portmeads Estate, Birtley AFTER reading about the medical secretary at the Royal Victoria Hospital, in my opinion, she has been ostracised by a hierarchy at this hospital who have made a scapegoat of this woman. She made a mistake with She made mistake with...
Your July 16 story "Gas stations would have to disclose true prices under bill" is inaccurate and misleading. While lobbyists in the gas business would like to lay blame for rising gas prices on payment card acceptance costs, instead of record-high oil prices, Americans know a scapegoat when they see...
Byline: By ANDREW HIRST Deputy News Editor WHEN Jack Willans chose his university he adopted a blue sky thinking approach. He also thought out of the box, out of his town, out of his county and even out of his country. For 18-year-old Jack...
Mrs Thatcher sold everything there was to sell and that is why we are in this shambolic mess today I AM sick and tired of reading about Mrs Thatcher being made a scapegoat for all of Britain's past industrial problems. Some people have got a short memory. ...
TOON midfielder Geremi feels that Newcastle United can use the Mallorca Summer Cup tournament to lay the foundations for a successful league campaign. The United battler donned the captain's armband once again for the Magpies at Doncaster Rovers on Saturday, just eight months after former boss Sam Allardyce...
Not hard to gaze around sports at the moment and find flawed judgment. In Boston, Manny is being Manny again, pouting through a New York Yankees series. It grows tiresome to watch an athlete as blessed as Manny Ramirez posture in self-pity through so many reruns. How do...
Ever since gasoline prices crossed most people's pain threshold earlier this year, the hunt for scapegoats has been in full swing. First it was oil executives, who were hauled before congressional committees, just as they are every time prices go up. Then came speculators, who were supposedly driving up prices...
Byline: ROB SMITH I saw the headline "Snake bites woman in Huddersfield" in the Examiner last March, followed four days later by a "Snake bites dog" headline, and thought it was an early April Fool. But it was no joke to the lady who had been...
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