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Long before the power crisis, California and Enron got along just fine. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), the nation's largest pension fund investor, had invested $250 million in one of the first of Enron's now-infamous off-balance-sheet partnerships - called JEDI - and got a 73 percent return over just three years. Small wonder then that when Enron execs came back in 1997 with JEDI II, a similar vehicle to invest in energy projects, including Enron's own Energy Services, CalPERS listened...
...that's fine by Kwan, who is taking a decidedly different tack at this Games. The last time around, in Nagano, she skipped Opening Ceremonies and shunned the Olympic Village in favor of a private hotel. That wouldn't have been a big deal, but Tara Lipinski, who would trump her for the gold, did the exact opposite - marching in Opening ceremonies, living in the athlete dorms, taking in every bit of the Olympic experience. And it worked for Lipinski. All of this may or may not have played in Kwan's mind on Thursday when she decided to stay...
George Bush is a careful custodian of his image. It's fine to snap a photo of him without a tie as he works on his ranch, but photographers have been prevented from snapping him with his tie loosened. So the premiere next month at an Austin film festival of a feature-length movie that depicts Governor Bush merrymaking with journalists aboard his presidential campaign plane in the fall of 2000 may not get a thumbs-up from the Commander in Chief. "These are my people," says Bush, who is seen wading into the boozy throng's cocktail hour...
...fine. That’s got to sting a little bit. But from where I sit, Carey’s in better shape now than she’s been in for years. Besides the $49 million she earned as severance pay from her record label, Carey’s more famous than she’s ever been, more an object of public interest than anyone else in the music industry. She’s so famous, in fact, that instead of having porn advertisements sent from “Brittney Spears” filtered out of my Hotmail...
...committee: "I don't know how well Skilling was informed." Which was pretty much how Skilling summed it up when he took the stand Thursday afternoon. He left Enron Aug. 14 "for personal reasons," he testified, and at the time sincerely believed that Enron was not only in fine shape but that its financial statements "accurately reflected the company's financial condition...