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Those comments came back to haunt Lay last week in an 11-count indictment accusing him of conspiring to cook Enron's books even as he touted its tainted stock. For starters, prosecutors claim that Lay failed to mention to analysts several massive problems he knew about, including some $7 billion in hidden debts. And he neglected to tell employees that the company's liquidity hinged on an emergency billion-dollar loan Enron had just obtained by offering its precious pipelines as collateral. But one egregious comment Lay made that fateful October day could end up as his salvation. During...
Cassini will use an elaborate suite of instruments to determine why all this meteorological hubbub is taking place on a planet that is so cold--with cloudtop temperatures of --218°F--that it shouldn't be able to cook up much weather. The best guess is that internal heat left over from the gravitational collapse that formed the planet in the first place is keeping things warm. Cassini will deploy its cameras, infrared sensors, chemical spectrographs and more to deconstruct the planet's atmosphere and find out for sure. Other instruments will map the planet's magnetosphere and gravitational...
After a brief stint at Radcliffe College as a cook, and later as a security guard, Jones joined the police department at Harvard in 1963, rising to the position of sergeant in the late 1970s, family members said...
That may explain the response of voters who praise Bush for his strength and leadership, regardless of where he's leading. "I don't agree with him on everything," admits David Cook, 52, a lay leader at the Lawrence Street Primitive Methodist Church in Lowell, Mass., who says Bush's failings matter less than his motives. "He's not the Messiah, but he follows the Messiah." Charly Gullett, who owns a gun shop in Prescott, Ariz., reaches the same conclusion, coming from the opposite direction. "I'm not a believer in God," he says, "but I recognize that faith...
...would've never done it if I knew. It didn't have a name on it." KEITH COOK, president of the Orange County, N.C., school board, who, for much of his speech at a graduation ceremony, plagiarized a 1999 speech by former Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala that he found on the Internet...