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...board made a reasonable business judgment to permit Mr. Fastow to serve in these partnerships,” Winokur said yesterday. “We believed those transactions would be in the best interest of Enron and its shareholders... I must therefore respectfully disagree with some aspects of the report relating to the board’s performance and corporate governance principles...
...Kirch empire?s main arms, KirchMedia already holds a 53.5% stake in ProSiebenSat.1, and is expected to merge with that company should a planned stockmarket float go ahead later this year. But another subgroup, KirchBeteiligungs, holds a 40% interest in Axel Springer. Why would Kirch permit a company in which it has such a sizable stake to cause it so much potential inconvenience? One theory is that the Springer family wants to reacquire shares in their company that Kirch bought in the late 1980s during a failed takeover attempt, and are exercising the "put" option as an arm-twisting tactic...
...world safe for America. Washington may not have been able to prove any Iraq link to the September 11 terror attacks, but it has lately begun to use Saddam's delinquency over weapons of mass destruction to beat the drums of war. "The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons," the President warned. Following his warning two weeks ago that if Iraq failed to readmit U.N. weapons inspectors, the U.S. would "deal with him at the appropriate time," the message was plain...
...talk about revising the state's Open Records laws, which make diagrams of dams and water-purification plants publicly available. At least eight states are weighing proposals to tighten rules for obtaining driver's licenses. Some, like Florida, propose having foreign nationals' licenses expire when their visa or work permit does; that would prevent illegals from using licenses as permanent IDs. North Carolina has created a registry of institutions possessing anthrax or other biological agents. And Colorado is likely to abolish a law that requires women to obtain the written permission of the Governor before serving in the National Guard...
...secret that many blacks either avoid the word entirely or permit its use within their community as a synonym for "soul brother." They bristle when whites use it, even in jest. But, as Kennedy observes, these long-established rules are changing because record and TV companies have discovered that there's gold in racial slurs. Thanks to gangsta rap and the vulgar comic routines of a generation of Richard Pryor wannabes, the N word is blasted onto the airwaves with such mind-numbing frequency that even white people believe they have permission to mimic the way blacks...