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...months earlier, at a gathering in Shanghai of the world's top business and government leaders. For 20 minutes, bursts of communist red and capitalist gold above the Huangpu River reminded onlookers that China invented such displays, more than 1,000 years ago, when the Asian giant had little contact with the outside world. At the Shanghai show, however, the fireworks were choreographed by a company named Grucci, based in Brookhaven, N.Y.--an emblem of China's acceptance of the competition and specialization embodied in global commerce...
...when top Enron officers bombarded Washington with dire pleas for help last fall, something almost unprecedented happened: nothing. Though both sides had been in contact for months on a variety of issues, at the moment the company threw itself down at the mercy of the feds, top officials at Treasury and Commerce said, in effect, "See ya." Even Robert Rubin, the Clinton Treasury Secretary who dialed up on behalf of Enron's creditors at Citigroup, was turned away by Bush officials...
...Carville, no friend of Rove's, acknowledges. And Rove told Time that if he spoke to anyone at Enron about Reed, it might have been only after Reed was hired. An Enron official, meanwhile, who says he and two others made the decision themselves, told TIME they had no contact with Rove about the matter. But a veteran G.O.P. organizer who was in contact with Reed in 1997 said Reed told him the Bush campaign had steered business his way-- something Rove doesn't deny...
...update its dress code for the first time in a decade. ALLOWED: Braids and cornrows, baldness (natural or chosen), dyed hair if it looks "natural" (no blue, pink or fire-engine red) and one cell phone, pager or digital organizer per person (but not all three). BANNED: Dreadlocks, colored contact lenses and, on men, visible body piercings or nail polish. Polish is O.K. for women, so long as it's not blue, black, khaki or--things really are changing--camouflage...
...such a sophisticated explosive persuaded Ranstorp that Reid did not work alone, as some believe. Although no al-Qaeda links have been proved, a French justice official says: "Even if it's too early for us to prove beyond any doubt that Reid was part of, or in contact with, an al-Qaeda network, every indicator suggests that indeed was the case...