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...consolation for Republicans is that the Democrats have not yet found a way to use this rising public anxiety to their advantage. Democratic efforts to exploit the Enron scandal failed to resonate with voters. Nor have they found a way to sell the return of the deficit as an election issue: while many Democrats have been critical of President Bush's tax cut, few have been brave enough to call for scaling it back...
...been a murderous criminal. A New York Post columnist argued that while “Gotti sure as hell may have whacked some goodfellas-badfellas in the pursuit of business…his crew didn’t come near mine or your wallets, like the Enron sissies did.” This same writer also opined, with regard to the Don’s incarceration in 1992, that “Gotti had to do time because the bureaucrats, who hide behind [the American] flag, said so.” Another journalist described Gotti...
...John Gotti had the same skills as the CEO of any large, successful corporation. He had that sort of touch where he remembered names and faces. He was gracious. Had his life gone differently, he would probably be running a large corporation and doing it well, better than Enron...
...only when the rinse cycle begins," a wise old friend of mine likes to say, "that you can tell how dirty the laundry really was." With Enron, Arthur Andersen, Henry Blodget and Dennis Kozlowski all sloshing back and forth in the muck, it has become clear to everyone that the late bull market in stocks was fueled partly with Potemkin profits, partly with bluster, partly with outright lies...
...coincidence that the two most notable whistle-blowers in American society today are women? Thank goodness for the impact of former Enron executive Sherron Watkins and FBI Special Agent Coleen Rowley. I'm glad they decided to place personal ethics and morality ahead of the careerist, risk-averse approach that men often robotically use in climbing the ladder. VICKI LOUK BALINT Phoenix, Ariz...