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...most addictive content available on the Internet, 5% more than pornography, according to an online poll $528,000 is the high bid offered for a guitar Jimi Hendrix burned on stage in 1967 and which Frank Zappa later restored and played in 1976 $44,000 is how much an Enron trademark logo, a 1.5 m tall, stainless steel, tilted "E", was sold for at auction last week...
...from 4% to 3.7%, cut the E.U.'s forecast increase from 2.9% to 2.3% and slashed the U.S. outlook nearly a point, to 2.6%. A Brand That Won't Quit At least there's still a hot market for one commodity: schadenfreude. The auction in Houston for Enron leftovers attracted 3,000 people. The most-desired item? The famous "crooked E" that adorned the energy trading company's headquarters; it sold for $44,000. BOTTOM LINES "Yesterday I died. That's bad news for me, but it's not bad news for you." Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, quoting...
...past months is not the least uncharacteristic. An administration whose very legitimacy rests on the assumption that elderly Florida Jews voted en masse for Pat Buchanan has quickly become a regime that can only be sustained on the construction of a bigger and bigger house of cards. As with Enron, big lies can yield big rewards for Bush and Company. Bush has created a distraction, just in time for congressional elections, from the wave of scandals that have rocked corporate America, the Republican agenda and Bush’s popularity. It’s a diversion from the reality that...
Despite Iraq’s desperate attempts to appease him, Bush may yet be able to snatch a war from the jaws of peace. One can only hope that, like Enron, his monstrous house of cards will collapse of its own absurdity—and that the second casualty of war will be the Bush regime...
...just looking for a little security. If I get a sugar mama out of this, that's great." RONALD WILLIAMS, former Enron employee, on his decision to pose for Playgirl's "Men of Enron" issue...