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Jurors literally leaned forward in their seats scribbling notes as whistleblower Sherron Watkins described the last critical weeks in the fall of Enron, as she testified during week seven of the fraud and conspiracy trial of former top executives Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling...
...discovered the accounting errors, CEO Jeff Skilling resigned. "He's a smart man," Watkins said. "The stuff I stumbled across - he knows it," she recalled thinking. "He knows it's bad." She described writing her infamous memo warning that the company was in danger and discussing it with Ken Lay in a 30-minute meeting in his office one week after Skilling left...
...restrictions on late-night dining. Pancakes are wonderful. Noise is not. But one does not cause the other, even at 4 a.m. Cambridge residents are no longer the Puritans of the 1600s; they are hungry night owls. We invite the CLC and the Harvard Square Defense Fund to lay down their arms and lap from the fountain of syrup with the rest...
...books, and Jacobin violence. Today, Michel Houellebecq, a prominent French writer, points out how even the utopian sexual revolution was perverted into a quasi-capitalist system of inescapable repression and perversion. So much for college dreams. According to another ’68 slogan, beneath the cobblestones, the beach lay. The beach is still there, waiting for the “days of wine and roses,” and the promise of rejuvenated welfare. But burning books and occupying universities is not the way; the French police were right to intervene. France needs to be more practical and less...
...document that is required by law to lay out a view of American power in its many forms-diplomatic, military and economic-and how it should be used in the world. The last time the U.S. issued one of these was in September 2002, after 9/11 but before the invasion of Iraq, so observers have been waiting to see if perhaps the administration has changed its mind about anything in the wake of the very tough slog U.S. troops continue to face in Iraq...