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...Time To Cram...
...before she gave the first of two damning testimonials to Congress, Enron vice president Sherron Watkins spent the afternoon in a cluttered conference room in the Rayburn House building on Capitol Hill. It was a cram session of sorts, a final chance for Watkins, her attorney and congressional staff members to review the dozens of subpoenaed documents she would be quizzed on the next morning. As they ate cold pizza, someone drew her attention to an e-mail titled "Confidential Employee Matter" that had been written by one of Enron's external lawyers. "Per your request," it began, "the following...
...circle most African settlements. Its one claim to fame was that Frederick Forsyth lived there while he wrote his military thriller The Dogs of War. But in recent years, Malabo has been transformed. Office buildings have shot up, hotels and banks have opened, and foreigners, once a novelty, now cram the town's fancy new restaurants. There's so much construction, joke the locals, that if you stick out your tongue, someone is likely to build...
...progress. Anyone? Anyone? Before seeing the plays I boned up on 19th century Russian radicals by reading the fact-packed 88-page program; by the time the lights went down Saturday morning, I felt ready to be a contestant on "Masterminds." Only with Stoppard does the theatergoer have to cram for a show...
...about 250 benignly obsessed people cram into the West Wing's 75 rooms, which are mostly small (some lack windows), badly ventilated, poorly sound-proofed but coveted beyond measure by people in the power business. A successful term in the West Wing can mean a couple of million dollars a year more in salary and consulting fees, an insider estimates...