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...Line up two cases of multiple murder-the executions at a Wendy's in Queens, N.Y., last year, and the post-partum drownings in Houston last week-and see where you would draw the Coleridge line...
...other day, Andrea Yates, a Houston housewife with a history of post partum depression, killed (would we use the word "executed" here?) all five of her young children by drowning them, one by one, in the bathtub. Then she called her husband at work and said he had better come home...
...energy industry--top executives who are cashing in stock options for tens and hundreds of millions of dollars while their corporate profits are tripling. "The consequence of the inaction has been a massive transfer of wealth from the ordinary citizens of California to rich energy barons in Houston, Charlotte and Atlanta," California's Democratic Governor, Gray Davis, told TIME. The state's wholesale energy bill grew from $7 billion in 1999 to $27 billion last year, and could reach $55 billion this year...
...delegation, Democratic and Republican, says the market now is anything but free. It is being manipulated, in their view, by energy companies that have wrung billions out of California consumers by squeezing supply to create artificial shortages. Why else, they say, would California power suppliers like Enron Corp.--a Houston-based trading giant headed by one of Bush's top donors and informal energy advisers--be seeing their revenues jump 281% in the first quarter? Even a respected free-marketeer like Alfred Kahn, the father of airline deregulation, has had enough. "The notion that caps automatically interfere with the increase...
...junior buyer at Foley's Department Stores in Houston in 1968, Wachner would spend her downtime patrolling the streets to spot trends. Early in her career, she revolutionized the lingerie business by merchandising bras on racks rather than hiding them in boxes. In the 15 years since she won Warnaco in a hostile buyout, Wachner has used that aggressive style to remake the dowdy $600 million manufacturer of women's undergarments into a $2.5 billion apparel powerhouse, owner of a stylish collection of brand licenses that includes Calvin Klein, Speedo and Chaps by Ralph Lauren. All that hard work helped...