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But when top Enron officers bombarded Washington with dire pleas for help last fall, something almost unprecedented happened: nothing. Though both sides had been in contact for months on a variety of issues, at the moment the company threw itself down at the mercy of the feds, top officials at...
On the evidence to date, the Bush Administration would seem to have admirably rebuffed pleas for favors from its most generous business supporter. But it didn't tell that story very effectively-encouraging speculation that it has something to hide. Democrats in Congress, frustrated by Bush's soaring popularity and...
DIED. STUART ADAMSON, 43, lead singer and guitarist for the proudly unhip 1980s pop band Big Country; after hanging himself in a Honolulu hotel room. Born in the tiny Scottish mining town of Dunfermline--where he maintained homes despite pleas from his record company to relocate to London--Adamson had...
After Sept. 11, Omar responded defiantly to Western pleas, ultimatums and then bombs, vowing that Taliban and al-Qaeda soldiers would never lay down their arms, and that he would never give up either himself or bin Laden. Town after town fell, and one militia commander after another defected. With...
As the publisher of his own songs, he controlled who recorded or licensed them. And as he aged, he got pickier about interpretations - a rare misstep for the master marketer; he should have understood that the life of an old song, like that of a Shakespearean play, is extended, not...