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翻译硕士直播课 英译汉体验4 政治 阿布格莱布
2015年12月13日 15:55 阅读 493 删除
Let&`&s be clear right up front that prisoner abuse is not to be con- fused with cooking the books. 【In trying to understand the Abu Ghraib mess by looking at spectacular failures of corporate management, we&`&re comparing life-and-death matters with dollars-and-cents matters, and it&`&s offensive to suggest they&`&re entirely comparable.】 Yet there&`&s no denying that anyone who has worked in a big organization nods his head while reading about the Iraqi prison debacle.
Yet there&`&s no denying that anyone who has worked in a big organization nods his head while reading about the Iraqi prison debacle. 【A screw-up so egregious you couldn&`&t have imagined it does incalculable harm to a giant enterprise -- we&`&ve seen it before. 】Managerial failures this mammoth are all different, but in a way they&`&re all the same.
......Every organization, including every company, has police. In the military their role is obvious: The military police are part of law enforcement within the armed services, and they operate the prisons in lraq. In companies the police are just as important but have a different name: They&`&re the auditors, part of the finance organization. 【When anything impedes the police, or even interferes with their incentives to do the one thing that they&`&re supposed to do -- enforce the rules -- trouble follows. 】The only question is how bad it will be.
【In every single one of the other great corporate scandals of the past three years, the police chief- the CFO -- was the critical link in what went wrong. 】Andy Fastow at Enron, Scott Sullivan at WorldCom, Timothy Rigas at Adelphia-- if they had held firm, none of those disasters could have gone very far. At HealthSouth, incredibly, every CFO the company has ever had, except for the current, post-scandal one, has pleaded guilty to federal charges.
【The new procedures were supposed to involve the military police in the interrogation process as conducted by military intelligence officers -- that is, the police were supposed to take on roles other than policing.】 It certainly appears no one was trying to do anything wrong -- on the contrary, improved interrogation is something everybody wants.
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