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Hyperbole is nothing new at this annual showcase of just about every gizmo ever featured on, or destined for, an infomercial. The $6 Pizza Fork combines a pizza cutter and fork in one utensil ("Easy! Amazing! Versatile!" screams the flyer). The $80 Cooper Cooler chills a can of soda in 60 sec.--after you add 24 ice cubes and two cups of cold water and plug the thing into the wall...
...Bush's "big idea" agenda, is steering the President toward Medicare and health-care reform for his State of the Union speech Jan. 28. Medicare is a vexing issue that has resisted all attempts to fix it. Expect the President to be swinging from the heels. --Reported by Matthew Cooper, John F. Dickerson and Douglas Waller/Washington and Daren Fonda/New York
DIED. MARY BRIAN, 96, popular contract starlet whose 82-film career bridged the silent and talking eras; in Del Mar, Calif. She co-starred in such silents as Beau Geste and Knockout Reilly, and played opposite Gary Cooper in one of the earliest western talkies, 1929's The Virginian...
Watkins, Rowley and Cooper have kick-started conversations essential to the clean operation of American life, conversations that will continue for years. It may still be true that no one could have prevented the attacks of Sept. 11, but the past year has shown that the FBI and the CIA overlooked vital clues and held back data from each other. No matter how many new missile systems the Pentagon deploys or which new airport screening systems are adopted, if we can't trust the institutions charged with tracking terrorists to do the job, homeland defense will be an empty phrase...
...Enron and WorldCom will continually need to be exposed and corrected before yet another phalanx of high-level operators gets the wrong idea and a thousand Enrons bloom. And the people best positioned to call them on it will be sitting in offices like the ones that Watkins and Cooper occupied. The new Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which requires CEOs and CFOs to vouch for the accuracy of their companies' books, is just one sign of what Cooper calls "a corporate-governance revolution across the country...