... and morals, asked readers to report any falsehoods in Blair's work to an email address. The Times investigated Blair's work over the four years he was a reporter for the paper. On May 11th, there were problems found in over 36 of the 73 articles Blair had written since his start on the national reporting ... As reported in The New York Times article, the sequence of events that began unfolding in early November led to his demise in early April. The investigation of Blair's actions displays how the reporter started with the fabrication of quotes in November, lying about his whereabouts in...

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... . People can be easily influenced by their surroundings and, if they do not have strong moral values, it could be troublesome when faced with difficult decisions. In Hannah Arendt's book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963), when one sees acts that are often done without any thought, that seem so normal, done in a different, frightening context, these acts ... look grotesque, and we can start to question what we take as normal and natural. Most people are generally horrified when they learn about Nazi Germany. They would like to believe they would ... anyone ...

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... would have officially become second-largest corporation in the world, in terms of sales. "Enron's reported revenue was based on its exploitation of a loophole in accounting rules that allowed it to book revenue from huge energy-derivative contracts at their gross value, not their net value as is done with other securities transactions." (Forbes, 1/15/02) Basically instead of reporting the spread ... difference (between bid and ask price), they would report the entire sale price instead. Many energy companies used this accounting style that was legal, but made the numbers look astronomic...

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