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jacket and goes off to apply for a job as a security guard at a five-star hotel. There he is mistaken for a journalist and whisked into a press banquet, one of many held in today's China to launch everything from[an error occurred while processing this directive] literacy campaigns to property developments. After a splendid meal - with an envelope of cash "for your troubles" - Dan has a revelation: all he needs to continue this charmed life is a fake business card and a nonexistent website. Thus begins Dan's career in journalism - and Geling Yan's shark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hungry For More | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...week, Ken Lay's criminal conviction in the Enron scandal has been formally thrown out because of his death, and former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skillling has been sentenced to 24 years in prison. But if anyone thinks that means the end of the Enron legal battles, they are as mistaken as the analysts who thought the once high-flying energy trader was a blue chip with a bright future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Enron Case Drags On | 10/24/2006 | See Source »

Don’t be mistaken by the order here, this is definitely the bottom-tier matchup...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Athletes Throwing Punches, Not Passes | 10/19/2006 | See Source »

...longer demagogues who provoke our anger, but tragic figures that engender our sympathy. These characters’ actions are too destructive to be completely sympathetic, leading toward a more cynical interpretation. Humanity is inevitably going to produce human leaders who will provoke terrible consequences, usually due to their mistaken assumptions regarding the necessary actions to preserve their rule...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Uneasy Lies the Leader’s Crown | 10/19/2006 | See Source »

...denominational leaders into the Oval Office for private sessions with the President," Colson later wrote. "Of all the groups I dealt with, I found religious leaders the most naive about politics. Maybe that is because so many come from sheltered backgrounds, or perhaps it is the result of a mistaken perception of the demands of Christian charity ... Or, most worrisome of all, they may simply like to be around power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why a Christian in the White House Felt Betrayed | 10/16/2006 | See Source »

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