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...produced last year: open access to electric-utility transmission lines, more deregulation initiatives and support for Enron's arcane financial instruments. "There is no company in the country that stood to gain as much from the White House plan as Enron," wrote California Congressman Henry Waxman, a leading Democratic critic, in a letter to Cheney last week. In the recent battle over an economic-stimulus bill, Lay lobbied for--and Bush supported--retroactive corporate tax relief. Enron would have been one of many beneficiaries, reaping a $254 million rebate from the government...
THAT OLD FEELING In his day job, TIME film critic Richard Corliss writes sharp, informed (and extremely quotable) reviews of the current cinema. Happily for us at TIME.com he also writes "That Old Feeling," a weekly column that spotlights, and often celebrates, the rich popular arts and entertainments of the 20th century. Last week Corliss gave out the Feelies, his awards for the best creaky culture of 2001. This week he writes on the closing of the peerless collection of movie stills at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. As he writes, "May everything old be new again...
...GOOD CRITIC IN TERMS OF PREDICTING WHAT'S GOING...
...grills a comic book critic in Dan Clowes' 'Eightball...
...Britain, that view is shared by the writer and critic Ziauddin Sardar, who came to the country with his Pakistani parents as a child in the 1960s. "If there is a sociological change there will be a theological change as well," he says. "In Islam, law and ethics are the same thing. If you change the ethics, you change the law. There will be a new interpretation of Islam...