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...course, the absence of celebrity guests may not be a bad thing. After all, you can lead Lay to committee, but you can't make him speak, and because nobody involved in the Enron mess seems ready to talk to Congress, representatives are moving away from trying to find out who to send to jail and toward discussing how to fix the real problems. The people dodging House microphones are a veritable Who's Who of the scandal: There's Lay, who resigned from Enron's board Monday night and decided not to show up before two Congressional committees Monday...
...Guests like SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt, who spent Monday afternoon before the House Financial Services Committee telling his questioners that the SEC was not only capable of getting to the bottom of the Enron mess but of also being a friendlier place for corporate accountants to come with questions about what they should and shouldn't do. And for all Pitt's genially droning delivery, and all the time he spent dodging grandstanders digging for pungent quotes on Bush's budget priorities, at least the general theme of the exchange was figuring out - and fixing - the real problem...
...clear from the same documents that discipline and morale at the lab in the early 1990s were a mess. USAMRIID at the time was roiled by alleged racial and sexual harassment, factions warring over the lab's leadership, accusations of incompetence and even theft of research. One particularly nasty clique formed a "Camel Club," whose symbol was a toy camel outfitted with outsize sex organs and whose members wrote lewd limericks mocking co-workers and sponsored notorious hot-tub parties. In short, USAMRIID had become a breeding ground of resentment and hateful high jinks...
...second is that with good humor, sound institutions and tolerance, that swirl of humanity can create a vibrant culture and an unparalleled opportunity for people to dream of a better life for themselves and their families. New York isn't perfect, but an hour spent in the liberating mess of Canal Street should convince the most jaundiced observer that it doesn't do too badly...
...businessman as smart as Kirch get into such a mess? Like media groups all over the world, the global economic downturn and the consequent slump in advertising have hurt the Kirch group. But most commentators trace his current troubles back to his foray in the 1990s into German pay-TV. Estimates suggest that by 1996, Kirch had invested close to $5 billion in digital technology and programming for pay-TV services. In 1999, he spent $1.27 billion to gain control of Premiere, his flagship pay-TV service. It was one risk too many. Since the start of 1999, KirchPayTV...