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The name Enron may now be synonymous with lost jobs, ruined retirements and galling corporate fraud. But the company--whose former CEOs Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling go on trial in Houston next week--also left a legacy of bright ideas. Here are three we can (grudgingly) thank it for...
But receiving shipments of food from outside is galling for a government that constantly lectures on the merits of juche (self-reliance). Donations also give adversaries leverage in political negotiations. Claiming this year's rice harvest is up 10%, North Korea announced last month that it doesn't need humanitarian...
"This isn't a conference report," protested Oregon's Democratic Congressman Les AuCoin. "It's a surrender document." His House colleague, California Democrat Don Edwards, agreed. "The House was skunked," he complained. Their anger was directed at the outcome of a House-Senate conference committee to resolve differences between the...
It hasn't helped matters that Japan's Education Ministry?headed by one of Koizumi's more conservative appointees?last week approved a textbook that critics say whitewashes the country's imperialist past. Among other things, it downgrades the Nanjing Massacre to an "incident." China immediately labeled the book "poison...
Justice Antonin Scalia deigned to write a dissenting opinion in which he called the decision a “mockery,” claiming that this decision somehow contradicted Alexander Hamilton’s assertion that the judiciary has “merely judgment,” as opposed to...