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...financial experts, who told him there was nothing illicit or unethical about hiding billions of dollars of Enron's debts in off-balance sheet partnerships that ended up inflating the company's reported earnings. To prove his point--and show how much he believed in the company until the bitter end--the man who has collected some $200 million in compensation over the past three years will try to explain how he is now flat broke. An internal Enron probe released Saturday night blamed the company's demise on a wide range of executives and auditors but went easy...
Lauren R. Dorgan ’04 is a history concentrator in Quincy House. David H. Gellis ’04 is a government concentrator in Dunster House. Together, they enjoy candlelit press conferences, long walks along the path to University Hall and bitter fights over endpapers in the Crimson newsroom...
...clinical ruthlessness of the attack on Uruzgan has left a bitter taste among the locals. "None of our friends fired on the Americans because they were all asleep," says Bari Gul. One Uruzgan elder told TIME, "The U.S. must be punished for what they did in this room, what they did in this place". The bloody events at Uruzgan village may prove to be a tragic mistake, but they may also reverberate more widely in southern Afghanistan. Even guards and translators accompanying TIME's reporter in the village walked away muttering anti-American sentiments...
...shadow of Sept. 11 looms large over the Olympics, but this security strategy is based on bitter lessons learned years earlier at the Games in Atlanta, where a pipe bomb exploded in a public square, killing a bystander and injuring more than 100 people. President Clinton responded with a directive placing the Secret Service in charge of security for all major public gatherings, including the Olympics; the directive also tasked the FBI with crisis management--anything from hostage rescues on down--and the Federal Emergency Management Agency with coordinating disaster response. Salt Lake City is the first test of Clinton...
...corruption and sodomy in two controversial trials. Although Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi is set to take over, few see him as more than a place holder. One intriguing possibility: should Mahathir depart, Anwar might take advantage of his status as the only leader who can heal the bitter wounds caused by his downfall - not to mention the many questions hanging over his convictions - to make a comeback. One scenario being discussed in Kuala Lumpur sees his supporters in the ruling political party arranging for a royal pardon, allowing Anwar to pick up Mahathir's mantle...