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...funds having already signed their respective commitment letters." Now facing default, Trintomar accepted the extra $96.5 million it didn't need. With the refinancing in place but the gas exploration project then failing, Trintomar found a firm to sublease its production facility in late 1992--an up-and-coming Houston outfit called Enron...
...forever too. But it has been dropped back into our laps by a new exhibition and a fascinating new book. "Dreaming in Pictures" is a seductive show of Carroll's camera portraits of adults and children at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art that will travel to Houston, New York and Chicago. It appears at the same time as The Lives of the Muses (HarperCollins; 416 pages), a supple work of cultural history by novelist Francine Prose, whose subject is the women who have inspired creative men from Samuel Johnson to John Lennon. She tells us, "The lives...
...words has already begun. Bush will be ready with his own broadsides, including one about Saddam Hussein that he's been reluctant to use in the past. "There's no doubt he can't stand us," Bush told an audience at a fund-raising dinner in Houston. "After all, this is the guy that tried to kill my dad." With reporting by John F. Dickerson, Mark Thompson and Michael Weisskopf/Washington and Johanna McGeary/New York
...patriotic, we loved one another more, and President Bush and Mayor Giuliani were everyone's heroes. Now Giuliani is off the stage completely, and the President is busy trying to decide whether to attack Iraq. We have learned a lot, but we have much more to learn. AMANDA ROY Houston...
...global growth in 2003 from 4% to 3.7%, cut the E.U.'s forecast increase from 2.9% to 2.3% and slashed the U.S. outlook nearly a point, to 2.6%. A Brand That Won't Quit At least there's still a hot market for one commodity: schadenfreude. The auction in Houston for Enron leftovers attracted 3,000 people. The most-desired item? The famous "crooked E" that adorned the energy trading company's headquarters; it sold for $44,000. BOTTOM LINES "Yesterday I died. That's bad news for me, but it's not bad news for you." Warren Buffett, chairman...