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...politics, screenwriting, economics, folklore and epidemiology, they deconstruct sticky ideas--from Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign classic "It's the economy, stupid" to the way Jane Elliott taught the civil rights movement to third-graders in an all-white Iowa town (see next page). At the same time, they lay out a blueprint for engineering your own sticky ideas, whether your goal is to stop teen smoking, sell more soap or get your boss to take you seriously. Says Dan: "We tackle the notion that having the idea is enough...
...Lay attorney Chip Lewis told TIME: "Everybody wants the employees and the folks affected by the collapse of Enron to recover as much of their their losses as possible. However, I don't believe the vehicle that the government has chosen to pursue is an efficient way to do that. There's so much civil litigation out there already - now that they do not have a criminal conviction to anchor their forfeiture upon, this is nothing more than another civil suit. It's a use of taxpayer dollars to attempt to recover in a method that's really duplicative...
...criminal case against Lay, his family certainly seems to think it's over. "We are pleased with the ruling, and are glad that this brings to a close, the criminal proceedings against Mr. Lay," said Lay family attorney Sam Buffone. The government may not agree. "They opposed vacating [the case], so there's no reason not to appeal it," says former federal prosecutor Michael Wynne. "That's the only way the law is going to change...
...appealing doesn't work, the other way to change the law is going through Congress - but prosecutors have already tried that route, in vain. Lay's conviction was vacated because he died in July. Federal prosecutors tried to get a bill introduced letting criminal convictions stand even if the defendant dies before sentencing and appeals - and sought to make it retroactive to a few days before Lay died. But no legislators sponsored the bill, and it wasn't discussed before Congress adjourned. Still, Lay attorney Michael Ramsey says he will be shocked if the closing of the criminal case...
...Still, while that may be settled, Skilling doesn't think his fate is. The former Enron CEO told Judge Lake that he is innocent and plans to appeal his case. Lay's lead criminal attorney thinks Skilling has a good chance. "This case is going to be reversed," Ramsey said at the courthouse."The Fifth Circuit has bounced back or modified virtually every Enron-related conviction." Which means that even after the issue of money is put to rest, the Enron case...