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...least his legal costs aren't an issue. "There is no way the U.S. is going to interfere with law in Taiwan," he predicts. Besides, Taiwan's Internet copyright laws are virtually nonexistent, experts there say. "Several articles under the criminal law lay down penalties for crimes via Internet such as money laundering and counterfeits," explains Chen Mei-ling, at Taiwan's Ministry of Justice. "Other than that, we have no laws...
...Lay finally raises his right hand in a Senate hearing room this week, one of the things his interrogators will want to know is just how close the former Enron CEO was to George W. Bush. Their relationship dates back to before Bush was Governor of Texas. Bush sent Lay a chummy note on his 55th birthday in 1997 ("Wow! That is really old," Bush wrote. "It's a good thing your wife is so young and beautiful"). But last week in Texas, Bush allies claimed Bush never fully trusted Lay, and they portrayed Lay as a classic cowboy type...
Whatever Bush may have thought of Lay, there's no doubt that each was useful to the other. As a free-market conservative, Bush championed causes dear to Lay's heart: energy deregulation and tort reform. And Enron has been Bush's largest campaign donor. Lay hired James Baker and Robert Mosbacher, prominent members of the first Bush Administration, after they left office. During George W.'s run for the White House, the candidate's staff and family used Enron jets 14 times (though Bush himself never...
...January 2001, Lay wrote to Clay Johnson, the White House personnel director, with a list of some eight candidates to be considered for presidential appointments. And Bush duly named two of Lay's picks to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which oversees the nation's electricity and gas markets. Since they are where Enron made most of its money, this was a win for Lay...
...what better way for FM to celebrate Valentine’s Day than by staging our own version of Dismissed? In the game, one lucky guy or gal goes on a date with two potential significant others. Competitors get one “time-out” card to lay on their opponent and then get some time alone (10 minutes, in our version) with their quarry. In the end, one person is chosen, and one gets…Dismissed...