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Phil Anschutz, the billionaire founder and former chairman of Qwest Communications, could be the next corporate chieftain forced into the congressional spotlight on boardroom greed. Anschutz has thus far avoided a hearing by privately convincing investigators he had no role in his company's day-to-day operations--including deals in which the Denver telephone company allegedly booked phantom revenue. But Qwest's ex-CEO Joseph Nacchio, in little-noticed testimony last week before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said he had consulted Anschutz on all major decisions. Now committee staff members plan to question Anschutz again...
...With Nussle's pollsters claiming he has more than 50% of the vote, Hutchinson needs to move the debate quickly to an area in which the G.O.P. is weakest: corporate greed's role in the faltering economy. But she is on her second D.C.-imported campaign manager in three months and is plainly uncomfortable with the negative campaign ads Washington is producing for her. "It's not Iowa," she says. Last week, while Nussle was voting to support the use of force in Iraq, Hutchinson was in between campaign stops, in Dubuque on the phone, begging for money...
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...promise of collective litigation may not be fully realized if hindered by public backlash to individual litigation. The public will be rightfully indignant over the absurd size of the award and the greed that clearly motivates many plaintiffs. In an already litigious society, these cases will be associated with the same kind of shameless opportunism behind, for example, the farcical McDonald’s suit this year that blames the company for a customer’s obesity...