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...game that Enron accountants know so well--are beginning to tell two different stories at the same time. For a President with two wars to fight and a 77% approval rating in the new TIME/CNN poll, the Enron story has been up to now little more than a bother. The poll shows that most Americans give Bush high marks indeed for his handling of the war and the terror threat. But when it comes to domestic issues--the economy, health care, the budget deficit--his grades are middling, and Enron is reviving some of Bush's least favorite issues, such...
...like George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts. But not one of the year's Top 10 moneymakers featured an A-list star, unless you count Eddie Murphy's voice in the animated Shrek. Are studio execs wising up? "A lot of people in the movie business don't bother to ask, 'Will the audience accept a star in this part?'" notes Stacey Snider, chairman of Universal, who nixed the idea of casting a star like Ryan or Roberts as the female lead in A Beautiful Mind--which is shaping up as a hit nevertheless. Of course, that fellow Russell...
...when Penn reeled off 14 unanswered points to take a six point lead in the second half, the Crimson didn’t let that bother them in the least. In fact, they hardly even realized...
...Ling, the U.S.-based poet, has just been arrested while trying to distribute copies of a literary magazine. Why, Buruma asks, if exiles are so marginalized should the government fear a "minor poet and editor of an obscure literary journal?" If dissidents are unimportant, why does the government bother with them? They matter, Buruma elegantly concludes, because of the challenge they pose to the government's monopoly on truth. Only when that monopoly is broken will craziness start to look sane again...
...Mike Velarde?worry about him. "He's not good at being on his own. He doesn't like to read, and watching the news just upsets him," says an insider. When the crowd is gone and his phone stops ringing, he lapses into long periods of silence. So why bother suffering through this? Why not just leave? Why not do a Fujimori or pull a Peron and head for a friendly country? "I'd rather face all the charges than leave the country," he says. "If I was guilty of what they accuse me, I would have run away...