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...remains that Mr. Fastow acted with the full knowledge and approval of Enron's board of directors, its office of the chairman, which included Mr. Lay and Mr. Skilling, and its internal and external auditors and legal advisers." His former boss, Jeffrey Skilling, who quit as Enron CEO last August, had no such hesitation, insisting to his incredulous interrogators that things had gone swimmingly on his watch...
...When the book begins, B?ll is lecturing at a New York university on the 50th anniversary of the bombing. The speeches have become part of his summer routine, a litany of self-justification. Every August he dusts off a laundry list of rational explanations to "ensure that the truth was being told." Following his talk, Amai, wearing a face reconstructed by the "skilled hands" of an American surgeon, approaches B?ll. Now 56 and a documentary filmmaker, she wants to interview him about his role in making the bomb...
...These two, whose fates were joined by the 4,000-kg bomb that killed more than 75,000 people on that warm, clear August morning, are set on a collision course, but one that ultimately leads to understanding. For B?ll, the scientific triumph of his career has become a paralyzing albatross, quietly hounding his conscience. "Dreams," B?ll concedes, "sometimes become nightmares." The book's pages, too, are haunted with visions of the devastation: "polka dots and stripes, the clothing patterns that the blast imprinted on the skin...
...overshadowed by the events of Sept. 11), the Amsterdam version is unique partly because it includes three versions of Van Gogh's famous Sunflowers, which are placed side by side for the first time. The earliest, oil on canvas, comes from London's National Gallery and was painted in August 1888 as part of Van Gogh's preparations for Gauguin's arrival at the Yellow House in Arles, where the Dutch painter hoped to create an artists' commune. The second Sunflowers, on loan from the Seiji Togo Memorial Yasuda Kasai Museum of Art in Tokyo, was painted a few months...
...bottles, green trading stamps, Campbell's soup cans and human beings. Thirty Are Better Than One (1963) presents 30 - count 'em - stacked Mona Lisas. In the same room are multiples of Monroe, Elvis Presley, the Statue of Liberty and Elizabeth Taylor. Warhol first painted Monroe after her suicide in August 1962. Instead of a recent photograph, he used a film still from nearly 10 years before. The flat silk-screen technique crookedly applies green eyeshadow and scarlet lipstick, like a magazine illustration of this season's makeup trends. Warhol's paintings "have the color of a shiny...