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CATHY BOOTH THOMAS, our Dallas bureau chief, has chased after the Pope, Fidel Castro, Hollywood celebs and Enron. Last week she was after the hottest consumer-electronics company in the world...
...just been through accounting arcana to cover the Enron and Andersen stories, so I thought Samsung was a blessing in disguise. Then I started running into terms like DRAMS and SRAMS, TFT/LCD and DLP, CDMA and TDMA, GSM and GPRS. So in two days I had to be up to snuff on enough of the lingo to find out why Samsung was so hot in chips, TV monitors, computer monitors and cell phones. Now I know what a DLP TV is. (Hint: it's thin, looks good on a tabletop and makes Saturday-sports fanatics ecstatic.) Samsung Telecommunications America opened...
...that had made it through the House last month. Now the measure goes on to the desk of President Bush, who during his election campaign opposed McCain's push to get the unregulated contributions known as "soft money" out of politics. Now, chastened by the public outcry over the Enron scandal and the perception that politicians might be for sale, Bush let it be known he wouldn't work against the bill's passage, and he's expected to sign...
...After Nov. 5, however, the bill would have a dramatic effect - preventing corporations, unions and fat cats from writing million-dollar checks to buy influence with the parties. (Enron and its affiliates, for example, spent over $2 million in soft money for the 2000 elections.) But just as water tends to find ways to flow, "money will still get to the campaigns," predicts a G.O.P. fund raiser. Special-interest groups wouldn't be able to use soft money to broadcast attacks on radio or TV just before an election, but the bill doesn't prevent them from putting that cash...
...Yale professor emeritus, top adviser during the Kennedy Administration and recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize in economics for his Portfolio Selection theory; in New Haven. INDICTED. The Arthur Andersen accounting firm, 88, on one count of obstruction of justice for allegedly destroying evidence related to the failed Enron Corp., by a federal grand jury; in Houston. LICENSED. Mike Tyson, 35, for a championship bout against current heavyweight titleholder Lennox Lewis; in Washington, D.C. Tyson was denied a boxing license by Nevada authorities, after a press conference melee in January...