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...million dollars that Lay and his fellow Enron executives invested in Bush's political career over the years bought them any special favors. But Bush knows he stands in the line of fire. Democrats have been unable to hang the recession on him, but many hope that Enron's hapless employees--whose retirement nest eggs vaporized even as their bosses were selling off more than $1 billion of their own stock--become the image that sticks. The Enron debacle goes to one of the most basic questions Americans ask about their President: Whose side is he on? Pre-September surveys...
...Sonny (Heath Ledger)--make for the most ornery family of Southern men since the Leatherface clan in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Most of them anti-black, all of them bitter, they need the face slap of redemption. It arrives in a comely package: Leticia (Halle Berry), a hapless mom who looks nifty in widow's weeds. She brings out the courtly gent in Hank and forces his ardor to do battle with his prejudices...
...Chicago--the start of the long winter deep freeze, and time to clear out the lockers at Soldier Field, where it's been so long since the Bears have seen any postseason play that fans feared the team might go the way of the Jordanless Bulls or the hapless Cubs. But amid temperatures that have kept the city virtually snow-free this season, the Bears have postponed their hibernation to seize a spot in this month's NFC play-offs, finishing with their best record in a decade and transforming themselves from cellar dwellers into Super Bowl contenders...
FIRED. DENNIS GREEN, 52, coach of the Minnesota Vikings for the past 10 years; after a hapless 5-10 season in which he was criticized for losing control of his players, notably star receiver Randy Moss...
...same token, with the total collapse of the Taliban, everything has changed. Omar has lost his robe. The Arab street is silent. The joy is gone. And recruitment? The Pakistani mullahs who after Sept. 11 had urged hapless young men to join the Taliban in fighting America and now have to answer to bereaved parents are facing ostracism and disgrace. Al-Qaeda agents roaming the madrasahs of Pakistan and the poorer neighborhoods of the Arab world will have a much harder sell. The syllogism of invincibility that sustained Islamic fanaticism is shattered...