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...AGGRESSIVE ACCOUNTING] [Thoroughly rotten] Enron used hundreds of off-balance-sheet partnerships to hide billions in debt. The firm also sold dubious assets to these partnerships at jacked-up prices to create bogus income...
...operating a nuclear program would be a Herculean challenge for an organization whose survival depends on its relative invisibility. Even fully-functioning states such as Pakistan have needed decades of research and the assistance of nuclear-capable allies to develop their bomb programs, and they haven't had to hide the extensive scientific and industrial infrastructure required to build nuclear weapons. And given that a dirty bomb's function is primarily to spread terror through contamination, terrorists may be inclined to view chemical and biological weapons as a more attractive investment...
...statement is typical Mueller - who, despite his occasional taciturnity, does not hide from responsibility. This week, during his marathon appearances before a closed-door joint congressional committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mueller seemed determined to maintain that lack of defensiveness. He sat quietly while the senators railed at him, and then calmly answered their questions. He was not there to tell us everything had been worked out, only to say that he, and many other people, were trying their darnedest to make things right...
...committed) student, but never both. Early on, perhaps by my second semester, I had come to the realization that to be taken seriously as a student—in essence, to avoid the “dumb jock” label—meant I would have to hide my athletic involvement...
...very naturally a very direct, a very forthright person,” Yasin says. “[Even] if I wanted to, I couldn’t hide anything. Sometimes I would like to, but I can’t pull...