QUOTE: January 17, 2003

"It isn't easy to take on those big boys, but one has to do it because otherwise I think the big boys are encouraged to feel that they can push the SEC around."

-- Former SEC commissioner Bevis Longstreth, commenting on how the SEC has rarely reprimanded any Big Four firms for wrongdoing.

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