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...well as Dynegy and its 30-percent owner, Chevron. Enron, he says, had not envisioned all of the possibilities that could trip them up. Operating in "panic mode," Watson's team began trying to sort out the details of the100-page SEC filing the next day, on Nov. 20th, but with a sinking feeling. A week later, on Nov. 27th, after renegotiating the deal almost daily, Watson told his board that he thought the chances of succeeding with the merger were down...
...Sept. 11 attacks. Investigators have traced $100,000 from a bank account in Dubai controlled by Ahmad to Mohamed Atta, suspected of orchestrating the attacks. The other is Ramzi Binalshibh, pictured here, a Yemeni who once lived in Hamburg with Atta and who the FBI believes was the 20th hijacker, who was supposed to have been aboard United Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania. The whereabouts of Ahmad and Binalshibh, however, are unknown. U.S. authorities believe they may be hiding in one of the remaining al-Qaeda strongholds in Afghanistan. But even if they aren't, prosecutors want indictments...
...peaceful transition from white racist minority domination to black majority rule in South Africa was one of the great political and social surprises of the late 20th century. The next surprise could be nearly as staggering: a marriage between the National Party that created apartheid and the movement that conquered it, the African National Congress. But, as top officials from both parties began match-making talks in early November, the prevailing view outside of the proposed partnership was that the marriage would end in tears and the party of apartheid would finally disappear forever...
...Surrealists consolidated in the postwar years. But while Ecksteins agrees that Sept. 11 will affect modern fiction, he doubts that it will provide the same powerful literary stimulus as World War I. "As numbing as the recent horrors have been, they don't surpass the days of the early 20th century...
...will be re-released this spring on the occasion of its 20th anniversary. I’ve never seen it in a movie theater, but, like many of my grade school friends, I taped E.T. from the 1987 network broadcast. We memorized the Jiffy commercial jingle as thoroughly as we did E.T.’s phone-home mantra...