Word: rottenness
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...better off that way. Inside the Green Line, Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. Outside the green line, Israel is guilty of apartheid rule. Take it from someone you knows: apartheid is a worm that will eat away at your society as if it were a rotten apple. The reservists’ movement teaches us an important lesson: even those who supposedly benefit from apartheid will eventually recognize its inhumanity...
...Skilling showed up in the lion's den because he thought he could run circles of deniability around Tauzin and his gang. He got in some convincingly righteous sparring with hopped-up committee members, and mostly blamed his apparent ignorance of anything rotten in the state of Enron on the difficult, highly delegatory task of running a large and complex international energy corporation. And when that didn't fly with the committee - and it surely didn't - Skilling merely pled more ignorance that Enron's house of cards was ever going to fall...
...mimics the job description: run fast and get nowhere. And never humiliate anyone so horribly that you can't get a favor from him tomorrow. Producer Lynda Obst, on whose book the series is based, is the host of this hectic how-to--as in "How to Make a Rotten Movie That Grosses $90 Mil." She looks fine, but a quick tip to the other producers: Lose the six-day beards. You're not Keanu Reeves...
That flair led Watkins last summer to conclude there was something rotten at Enron. The numbers didn't add up. A pair of letters that she wrote to Chairman Kenneth Lay exposed top officials--perhaps including Lay himself--who for months had been trying to hide a mountain of debt, and started a chain reaction of events that brought down the company. Watkins' letters, along with thousands of other documents, are now in the hands of congressional and criminal investigators who are probing how Enron, its pet-rock auditors at Andersen and a host of other supporting actors allowed...
...talking about if anyone could understand it - how investment bank JP Morgan held Enron's hand all the way to the Jersey Channel Islands to set up one of the company's offshore partnerships/tax havens/accounting dodges - and could stand to lose $1 billion on the deal. Implication: That something rotten you're smelling in the state of business is probably not confined to a few evildoers in Houston - and the race is now on to be as non-Enron-like as possible...