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...dubious defense strategy was foreshadowed by his wife Linda in an ill-conceived appearance last week on NBC's Today show. She claimed that her husband was hoodwinked by nefarious underlings and that the proof of his innocence is that he and his family are now near bankruptcy. "If those people had come back to him and told him there was anything wrong, he would have stopped it and fixed it," Linda Lay declared. "There's nothing left. Everything we had mostly was in Enron stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ignorant & Poor? | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

Very well. Ms. Toi has no problem with booty per se, and though the dubious plum Russian fur hat and similarly purple vinyl attire she sports on the cover of her album bespeaks bling, she has more to offer. Track after track, she never lets up on the flow—or the venom—though her insistence occasionally gives way to repetition. The best tracks are those in which she forgoes the lackluster, quasi-operatic sampling for the rhymes she does best. Unfortunately, given the as yet unspectacular reception of her November release, the world...

Author: By Crimson STAFF Writers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Music | 2/8/2002 | See Source »

Normally when public companies flame out in scandal, top executives can be seen running from headquarters mumbling that they are shocked to learn that there was gambling going on in the casino. But there's not much of that here. Enron and Andersen officials hardly deny the dubious deals, the 881 offshore tax havens or the stupid accounting tricks. That's partly because nobody can be sure that those dodges were inherently illegal. Many companies maintain similar arrangements, usually intended to avoid taxes--a benefit of interest to Enron too. Enron avoided paying federal income tax for four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Did They Know And...When Did They Know It? | 1/28/2002 | See Source »

CRITICISM Howard Cosell sits ringside for the rumble with Foreman. Actually, he left Zaire before the fight. Also, the lawyer in Ali's draft case calls him from a motel as Martin Luther King Jr. is shot there. Dubious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema Verite? | 1/28/2002 | See Source »

...Normally when public companies flame out in scandal, top executives can be seen running from headquarters mumbling that they are shocked to learn that there was gambling going on in the casino. But there's not much of that here. Enron and Andersen officials hardly deny the dubious deals, the 881 offshore tax havens or the stupid accounting tricks. That's partly because nobody can be sure that those dodges were inherently illegal. Many companies maintain similar arrangements, usually intended to avoid taxes--a benefit of interest to Enron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: By the Sign of the Crooked E | 1/19/2002 | See Source »

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