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...Federal Energy Regulatory Commission meets in a special session, its first with two new Bush appointees in place. For the past year, FERC has ignored pleas for sweeping electricity price controls in California and other Western states. Last fall, at a congressional subcommittee hearing in San Diego, chairman Curtis Hebert suggested that consumers should learn to live with higher electricity prices. "If the truth kills Granny," he declared, "let her die." When things got really bad last spring, FERC limited prices only during the worst power emergencies. But this week FERC is expected to approve full-time price controls...
...With an eager new energy secretary, Spencer Abraham, and a nominee to head the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, former Mississippi state utility regulator Curt Hebert, on their way in, the Bushies remain hopeful that they can find "long-term" solutions to the U.S.' darkening energy picture, as Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer put it. But even the longest journey must begin with a single step, and with the economy teetering and the political climate in Washington tense, the inevitable first one - making California make deregulation work without federal help - is most definitely a lulu...
...addition to the University, the suit names Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer '82, his wife Nancy Zimmerman, former Harvard employee Jonathan Hay and his wife Elizabeth Hebert as defendants. Shleifer was principal investigator and project director of the aid program and Hay was the general director...
...There is no substance to what was alleged," said Hebert's attorney Lloyd Macdonald...
...also bought Russian government bonds andprofited personally from them, USAID alleged inthe letter. Hay's girlfriend, Elizabeth Hebert,has also been implicated in some reports...