The big accounting firm Deloitte & Touche has taken the word of companies that it audited instead of properly performing its watchdog function, according to a report released Monday. “The firm’s apparent failure to appropriately challenge management’s representations occurred in numerous areas,” the report by an industry oversight board said. Read full article > >

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Oversight board faults Deloitte audits

Maybe the newly resurrected Repertory Opera Theater of Washington (it tanked in mid-season a year ago) can make a go of it. Its artistic staff is committed to bringing affordable opera to local audiences and, with little pretension, it’s bringing in some fine young singers. What it seems to lack is an audience. There were 40 or so people on hand Friday for the first of its four staged performances of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” at Alexandria’s Immanuel Church-on-the-Hill. The show deserved better, and ROTW needs to get the word out. Read full article > >

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Uneven but enjoyable ‘Don Giovanni’ at Repertory Opera Theater

Will the Paralympics put paid to the word ‘disabled’?

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No D-word

From shot 29-year-old Mark Duggan referring to the police as “feds” to the nuanced use of the word “community”, the language of the riots can tell us something.

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The words behind the riots

Every believer to pull an elastic, canary-yellow rubber band imprinted with the word “LIVESTRONG” on their hand and around their wrist — everyone who ever pledged a dollar toward cancer research so they could symbolically overcome as their inspiration overcame — is confronting some hard questions today. Lance Armstrong’s decade-long insistence he is a clean champion feels so forced and hollow now; heck, after watching Sunday’s “60 Minutes” piece , even the most devoted bracelet people must be saying, “Uncle, I give.” Read full article > >

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For Lance Armstrong, it’s time to find out what living strong really means

The warnings seem almost ubiquitous today in this world of Doppler Radar and instant communication, but the word “tornado” actually used to be banned in weather forecasts.

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‘Tornado’ was once banned in forecasts

A growing number of recession-racked municipalities are seeking more money — just don’t use the word taxes — from nonprofit institutions that by law do not pay property taxes.

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Squeezed Cities Ask Nonprofits for More Money

He writes “OK” several dozen times each day, and Jinichi Sasaki figures he’ll scribble the word for years before anything about his town feels right again. In this tsunami-obliterated fishing port, rebuilding begins with one word, which Sasaki, a municipal employee, writes — in English — on every invoice and delivery form. He uses it in lieu of a signature, in part because he likes its simple utility — an antidote for a place that was destroyed. A truckload of rubber boots: OK. A fresh crate of rubbish bags: OK. Forty thousand 500-milliliter bottles of water: OK. Read full article > >

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After Japan’s tsunami, a town climbs back

Why is the word ‘slut’ so offensive?

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Shocking word

On a recent open mic night at BloomBars, comedian Tommy Taylor Jr. joked about the District turning into Butter Pecan City and his excessively cheerful neighbor’s overuse of the word “toodle-oo.” That was before singer-songwriter Courtney Dowe sang about vampire love and a spiky-haired poet yelled into the mic. Others took turns reading poetry, rapping, testing out new comic material and singing a cappella.

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D.C.’s BloomBars: An offbeat space where art and community combine

Malaysia’s government agrees to release 35,000 imported Bibles, held at customs for months amid a dispute over the use of the word “Allah” in reference to God.

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Malaysia to release 35,000 Bibles

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. parsed the word “personal” for AT&T as the company tried to block release of some documents.

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Supreme Court Rules on AT&T Case

There’s no doubt airline fees are one of the universe’s most complained-about topics. Just say the word “fee,” and you’ll see the same look of disgust you’d see if you told anyone older than 20 that you like Justin Bieber.

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Airline fees aren’t all bad

Two of the nation’s biggest online portals blocked keyword searches of the word “Egypt,” and the use of the word has also been blocked on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter.

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Wary of Egypt Unrest, China Censors Web

Why modern-day US presidents love the word

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The rise of ‘we’