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...winter's day in late 1998, Kim Myong Suk, 20, lay shivering and weak from hunger on the cold concrete floor of a cell in a prison camp in North Korea, not far from the Chinese border. She was five months pregnant and was about to lose her unborn child. Of all the horrors she recalls from that day, she says, two stand out. One is that her sister, who lived in a nearby town, had been brought in to watch what was about to happen to her. The other is the name of North Korean guard...
Hwang, Kim says, referred repeatedly to the baby as "the Chink," because the father was a peasant from northeastern China, where Kim had fled earlier that year. As she lay on the prison floor, Hwang demanded that she abort the fetus herself. She refused, so the guard began kicking her in the stomach. Then he beat her and, as her sister screamed, continued beating Kim until she blacked out. When she regained consciousness, she says, she "was taken to a clinic in the camp, and in the most blunt manner, they removed [the fetus] from my body...
...thing is for sure: For the business trial of the century, the Enron trial thus far has been something of a letdown - especially its peek into the Enron executive suite. Lay and Skilling may have transformed a stodgy natural-gas carrier into a global trader in everything from energy to weather futures and broadband, but the two men remained surprisingly old-school when it came to technology. Take Skilling, a Harvard School of Business grad and master of this brave new digital world. When the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission went after Enron for the California energy crisis, it built...
...prosecution's task with Skilling - and next week with Lay - is to cast doubt on their contention that they were unaware of the financial shenanigans of ex-CFO Andrew Fastow and his financial Team. How could Skilling, the man who testified he "bled Enron blue" and was involved in all major strategic decisions, not know that his lieutenants were manufacturing the numbers? In court he claimed he didn't know he had a responsibility to oversee Fastow's questionable transactions. Yet prosecutors pointed out at least one of the transactions was discussed at a board of directors' finance meeting...
...brutal as Skilling's questioning got at times, Lay could be in for a harder time on the stand. Whistleblower Sherron Watkins has testified that Lay continued to tout the company to investors and employees even after she gave him dire warnings about the Enron's finances. Skilling met with Lay the same day as Watkins, but he swears the two never discussed her allegations. If Lay doesn't contradict his co-defendant, it raises the question of why he didn't bring up the issue himself with Skilling. Did he not believe Watkins? Or not trust Skilling...