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...blame for Enron's collapse. A lawyer for the board called the report "very unfair," but it will be welcome news to shareholders seeking billions of dollars in compensation from Enron; they could get a legal boost from the 60-page document. The bipartisan study also raises the likelihood that one-time Enron board members will come under renewed pressure to resign directorships at other major corporations like Lockheed Martin and Qualcomm. Wendy Gramm has already stepped down from several of her board assignments, but her husband Phil, apparently carrying on his wife's mission, is leading...
...gritty midfielder Donovan, who finished the Cup with two goals, is the standard bearer for the future. He embarrassed German defender Christian Ziege, beating him through the legs and nearly besting goalkeeper Kahn. In all likelihood, German team Bayer Leverkusen, which owns Donovan's contract, just might want him back from MLS's San Jose Earthquakes. Indeed, the national team's success may hurt MLS: The sprightly Beasley may have also punched his ticket to Europe, and Mathis has stirred interest...
...further decreasing the likelihood of conflict is Kirby’s view that he doesn’t need to relay faculty members’ complaints to Summers...
...think that we were conscious of the fact that as we walked through the Yard to Thayer Hall we were entering what would, in all likelihood, be the last class of veterans from the Second World War. In fact, I suspect that this was rather irrelevant, since all of us wanted to get on with our lives. To one degree or another these lives had been interrupted, either by the Germans or by the Japanese, and now it was time to start afresh and get an education then proceed to conquer the world...
...most notorious blows against American interests had taken place in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, the sites of the 1998 embassy bombings, and in Yemen, where the U.S.S. Cole was bombed in October 2000. And in the first half of last year, the CSG monitored information suggesting the likelihood of another attack overseas. In June 2001, the State Department issued a worldwide caution warning American citizens of possible attacks. That month, says a recently retired senior FBI official, "we were constantly worried that something was going to happen. Our best guesstimate was something in Southeast Asia." A French investigator involved...