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...when the first Senate hearing on Enron got under way, it felt less like an inquiry and more like a warm, ritual bath designed to soak away the stain of contributions. Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who got $2,000 from Enron and $11,500 from Arthur Andersen in the past decade, invited former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt, the nation's leading accounting hawk, to do the scrubbing and apply the rinses. That gave Senator Robert Torricelli of New Jersey, who was until recently the subject of a federal probe into his campaign finances, a chance to apologize to Levitt...
That following Monday, in another familiar ritual, Sanders prepared to run. He packed his things at the shelter and went to his mother's house to ask for money. But as he sat there facing her interrogation, he changed his mind. "I was on the run for two years once. I know how to do it. But I'm 41 years old. I'm tired of running." So the next day, instead of taking Greyhound south, he went to his parole officer. He walked into her cubicle, as hundreds of others have, sweating, shaking, wondering if he would leave...
Community-wide decisions of this nature are unusual at Hillel, as most ritual practices occur in the individual prayer groups of its many denominations, including Orthodox, Conservative and Reform. Meals are among the only events involving rituals that the whole community takes part...
...days were newly crowded with the parade of memorials and ritual embrace. Rescuers eventually turned up the remains of Ladder 11, crushed like a Coke can, and later the bodies of three of its men. In the first week of October, all six of the men were buried. There was Lieut. Michael Quilty, who had been on the job for two decades, and Michael Cammarata, just nine weeks in the department, who had a poster of the Twin Towers over his bed at home and a sealed envelope in his night table to be opened only if anything ever happened...
...bring this to me. I've given you a task, and I have full confidence in you to carry it out,'" says a senior U.S. military officer. "That was a big change." Tenet was so sure he had Bush's confidence that he never made the ritual offer to resign after 9/11; he didn't even apologize. And when Tenet came under fire from Republicans, Bush was there with the hoses. "We cannot be second-guessing our team," Bush told a group of lawmakers aboard Air Force One on Sept. 27, "and I'm not going to. The nation...