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...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...
Since the Enron story broke, TIME's crack investigative reporter MICHAEL WEISSKOPF has been digging deep into the scandal. This week Weisskopf discovers a possible reason why Dick Cheney is reluctant to release notes from his energy task force: a May 3 meeting between the Vice President and lobbyists for electric utilities that gave money for a May 21 presidential gala. Talk with him about the Enron mess on Thursday...
Then normality broke out. By January, with the smoke clearing in Afghanistan, cable news was back to hockey-rage trials, Mike Tyson-biting scandals and the Sept. 10-era question, How do you grab viewers on slow news days? Fox, it turned out, had the most successful answer. Last month, for the first time, the network outdrew CNN in total-day viewers, despite being available in 9 million fewer homes. On the whole, its viewership was up 109% over the year (CNN countered that because its own audience grew 51% over the same period, Fox's gains did not come...
...some senior advisers are a good deal more concerned, claiming Pelosi, who now has her own production company, broke an agreement with the campaign. "She promised then Governor Bush and looked him in the eye and said it was for personal use," says one. "It is disappointing that she gave her word and didn't keep it." Pelosi says the conversations she had with Bush about her filming are in the movie, which speaks for itself...
...former high school students, who had been in her sophomore history class. But sometimes the age of the retirees-turned-proctors can make for a precarious situation, he says. For example, there was one unfortunate incident in which an 82-year-old woman fell and broke her arm while proctoring an exam...