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...every move, fretted about the arrangement but saw the chance to double their fees if they just kept their heads down. And now that the party's over and the damage control is in full swing from Houston to Chicago to Washington, just about everyone who helped create this mess is busy pointing fingers, scapegoating the other guys, firing the lower-downs and diming out the higher-ups. Last week what was once envisioned as a new kind of company resembled little more than a circular firing squad of executives, accountants, consultants and lawyers, all fighting to stay in business...
...credit, has never been shy about admitting he swims in the same campaign-finance cesspool as everybody else. But this time around - and pending discovery that the entire Bush Administration has been lying through its gritted teeth for the past week - Washington, for once, may come out of this mess smelling better than the men who wrote the checks. How "tainted" the recipients of Enron's political largesse feel is up to them. But there may be a lesson in how, apparently, Enron's lavish investment in campaign finance seems to have run up against the limits of its return...
...Monetary Fund, Argentina has adopted in the past decade. Last week Duhalde committed his government to "the unrestricted defense of national interests." Said the President: "No one wants a return to the old protectionism, but we need to protect our own." Right now Argentina looks like a great, unenviable mess, but if Duhalde really does adopt populist, nationalist policies, he may have imitators--especially in Brazil, which holds a presidential election later this year and where the liberal economic policies of outgoing President Henrique Cardoso have many opponents...
Here's how it works. Take digital cameras, which sold even better than retailers expected in 2001, despite the recession. "The problem is," says Jobs, "the minute you plug them into your computer, you fall off a cliff. It's just a complete mess on the computer. We decided that this was our calling--a place where we can really make a difference...
...than the flight itself - have pushed me into the camp of the national ID card. Yes, a tamperproof ID smacks of Big Brother and Nazis intoning "Your papers, please," but the Federal Government already holds a trove of data on each of us. And it's less likely to mess up or misuse it than the credit-card companies or the Internet fraudsters, who have just as much data if not more. (Two years ago, for a TIME article, I ordered dinner for 30 entirely online, and I am still plagued by vendors who know I like my wine French...