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...victory also sets up the six-month-old Enron Task Force at the Justice Department to bore in on the energy-trading company. Prosecutors want to prove that former bosses Lay and Jeff Skilling and other executives touted Enron's stock when they knew the company was in a free fall--a violation of securities law. "This [verdict] can only help us," said Leslie Caldwell, chief of the task force. "We are going to get to the bottom of the Enron debacle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Called to Account | 6/24/2002 | See Source »

...surveillance camera mounted on one of the 17th century town houses that form the historic heart of the southern French city of Beaucaire. Installed to dissuade the increasing acts of crime and aggression that have targeted passersby and parked cars in the square below, this camera also seems to bore in on the sidewalk caf? where Houari and many other members of Beaucaire's ethnic Arab and immigrant population gather to while away time. "You get the feeling we're under watch and suspicion, even though we are just as fed up with the incivility and delinquency as everyone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Le Pen Effect | 6/2/2002 | See Source »

...glimpse of his fierce work habits. After Sept. 11 proved him right, he didn't blow the whistle on the disturbing breakdown in the chain of intelligence that followed his memo. He didn't quit. He didn't write a book. Instead, he went back to the office and bore down harder than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Behind the Hot Memo | 5/27/2002 | See Source »

...urban design and architecture firms to submit proposals for developing the site, the P.A. leadership, angry that it had not been consulted, started throwing its weight around. Whitehead's group had to withdraw the requests. Soon after, new ones went out over the names of both bodies, but they bore the plain stamp of the barreling Port Authority. Whereas the L.M.D.C. had called for a plan to be ready by next April, the new schedule wants it by December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle For Ground Zero | 5/27/2002 | See Source »

...that will make liberal use of old footage from "American Bandstand" and NBC News reports. It announced "The Rerun Show," to air perhaps later this summer, in which a troupe of actors will perform scripts from old sitcoms. It announced a few new sitcoms and dramas, several of which bore considerable resemblence to old NBC sitcoms and dramas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Upfronts: NBC Gets Peacock-y | 5/14/2002 | See Source »

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