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...failing public school system. But Governor Gray Davis devoted much of his State of the State address last week to more life-and-death matters. "All four hijacked planes were bound for California," said Davis, dressed in a blue shirt, a red tie and an American-flag lapel pin. "More than 100 fellow Californians paid the ultimate price for our freedom." In memory of those who died on Sept. 11--"to build a future worthy of their sacrifice"--he announced legislation designed to terrorproof the state. Local police, he said, need the same broad wiretapping authority the feds now enjoy...
...granite wall etched with 58,175 names, an antidote to the memory of nameless nightly body counts. Since then the experts have chronicled America's "casualty aversion" through Lebanon, Somalia, Kosovo. The first President Bush was so concerned about maintaining public support during the Gulf War that shots of flag-draped coffins arriving at Dover Air Force Base were banned. The Pentagon expected tens of thousands of casualties; 148 died. The blessing of a swift victory was its curse; so few soldiers perished that it left the impression that war had been made safe, childproofed by the high-tech, high...
...astonishing indeed to witness a nation that has reacted with so much unity and urgency to restore its national equilibrium. From government officials to the military personnel serving in Afghanistan, there is the highest degree of determination to be true bearers of the American flag. I hope the governments of other countries in crisis will be able to sense the patriotism and determination with which the American people are restoring their distorted lives, economy and country. But even with the worst-case scenario of the American experience as a frame of reference, many governments will fail to provide leadership...
...squawking that ultimately got former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt to back down from proposals to forbid accounting forms from doing consulting work. When the current scandal first started to bloom, Berardino insisted to Congress that 70-year-old accounting rules don't give auditors the tools to flag the kind of risky behaviors that got Enron in trouble - and that it's the laws governing client disclosure that are toothless, allowing an Enron to hide its shadiest deals from the poor auditors trying to uncover them...
...Judge Rosenthal was and is, by all accounts, a honorable type but the fact that she was appointed by George Bush Sr., had worked for Bush's old chief of staff James Baker at Baker Botts in Houston, and had owned Enron stock did raise a red flag among angry shareholders. Last week, after all, Rosenthal turned down a request to freeze the $1.1 billion gained by 29 Enron directors and officers on stock options even as shareholders and employees were losing their shirt. Baker, her old boss, had worked for Enron after he left the Bush White House...