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Reed was almost as successful at Enron. He spent most of his time advising the company on how best to drum up support for energy deregulation. He made about $10,000 a month for 12 to 18 months of work, focusing initially in Pennsylvania, and Enron got much of what it wanted from the state, which deregulated its electricity market without making California's costly mistakes. But even Reed couldn't help Enron persuade the state to let it immediately compete for the customers of incumbent utility PECO Energy...
...unlikely that such an arrangement would have been illegal. But the timing of Reed's Enron work had people who know about the finances of fledgling presidential campaigns clucking. A powerful force among Christian conservatives in the late 1990s, Reed was hired by Enron to bang the drum for energy deregulation in Pennsylvania at a time when the Bush team in Austin would have appreciated a low-cost, low-profile way of keeping Reed on their side, off their payroll and yet far from the crowd gathering around Steve Forbes and other conservative rivals. If Rove gave Enron a nudge...
...Don’t Let Me Down” deserves to be the biggest hit of the album, with its Ocasek-influenced driving synth and drum rhythms. For once Stefani will shine singing about requited love. “Making Out” has a low, thumping rhythm and a symphony of synth sounds that gets the heart pumping faster. No Doubt even collaborated with Prince. “Waiting Room,” to which Prince lends vocal, production, and writing talent, sounds like Gwen Stefani just sang along with an old Prince tune. The syrupy sexual lyrics...
...Don’t Let Me Down” deserves to be the biggest hit of the album, with its Ocasek-influenced driving synth and drum rhythms. For once Stefani will shine singing about requited love. “Making Out” has a low, thumping rhythm and a symphony of synth sounds that gets the heart pumping faster. No Doubt even collaborated with Prince. “Waiting Room,” to which Prince lends vocal, production, and writing talent, sounds like Gwen Stefani just sang along with an old Prince tune. The syrupy sexual lyrics...
...Malim Mirwali is like no other Afghan I have met. His shoulders are thick like heavy sacks of flour, his chest broader than a 40-gallon drum. He has pylons for legs. The hand he offered in greeting swallowed mine whole in a fleshy palm, then wrapped it in fingers fat like German sausages. Over his grey kameez and flowing shirt he wore a neat-cut waistcoat. A bushy black beard tumbled from his face. He talked slowly; the same as he moved. "[Helmand] Governor Haji Shir Mohammed and American soldiers have gone on this road to Kajaki [a town...