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ANNALS OF SCANDAL...
INSIDE THE ENRON COLLAPSE With the Houston energy-trading company having gone from No. 7 on the FORTUNE 500 to Public Scandal No. 1, we present a complete guide to the Enron debacle. This week Molly Ivins writes on how the Enron effect has affected Houston, and Yale law professor Akhil Amar discusses why Dick Cheney should give in to congressional demands to see his Enron notes. Also, see a time line of the company's steady rise and spectacular fall, a guide to the players and continuing coverage of the case, at time.com/2002/enron...
Since the Enron story broke, TIME's crack investigative reporter MICHAEL WEISSKOPF has been digging deep into the scandal. This week Weisskopf discovers a possible reason why Dick Cheney is reluctant to release notes from his energy task force: a May 3 meeting between the Vice President and lobbyists for electric utilities that gave money for a May 21 presidential gala. Talk with him about the Enron mess on Thursday...
...Rusty Smith, who had already qualified for the American team, tanked the 1,000-m short-track final at the Olympic trials so their friend Shani Davis could finish first and make the team instead of O'Hare. Despite some damning evidence, an arbitrator exonerated Ohno, but the mini-scandal is a reminder that even with his prodigious talent, Ohno is no sure thing...
Corruption has also tainted these Games, no matter how much Mitt Romney, Senator Orrin Hatch and the rest of the Salt Lake Olympic Commitee (SLOC) try to bury the story. Much of the stain on the Olympic Games in the past five years has come from the scandal over 1995’s selection of Salt Lake City as the host city...