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...result, when you see artillery fire from the Dems it's usually directed at the Bush Administration, not Bush himself. One favorite whipping boy is Office of Management and Budget Director Mitch Daniels. Democrat Kent Conrad, who chairs the Senate Budget Committee, practically accused him in hearings last week of going to the Enron School of Accounting in drafting the federal budget. The other target is Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill. He got into a silly spat last week with the Democrats' senior senator, Robert Byrd, over which one of them came from the humblest beginnings...
...Enronization" of budget politics has begun. To wit: Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad says he was driving to work Monday morning and the thought occurred to him that "the biggest problem with Enron was that they were hiding debt - hiding it from their shareholders, hiding it from creditors, hiding it from themselves. I think that's exactly what the federal government is doing. The federal government is now engaged in hiding and understating debt...
...He’s been a marvelous senior fellow,” said Conrad K. Harper, a Corporation fellow. “He has this extraordinary capacity to remember everyone and at the same time to give concern to all the important issues...
...Additions: Holly Robertson, C, 6-5, Fr.; Christine Okike, F, 6-0, Fr.; Andrea Conrad...
...revisit familiar ground and again bring to bear his formidable powers as a literary man and journalist. The two disciplines are indistinguishable in Half a Life. But there are clear influences. Naipaul's India could be a setting in an R.K. Nayaran story. His Africa is as baleful as Conrad's and his London Waugh-like. Here, for example, is a man-about-town explaining how to ensure a successful dinner party: "I'm asking the poet and his wife only for the nosegay effect. A little bit of dead fern, to set the whole thing off." There are moments...