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...Qaeda--is hiding in the mountains along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and is still capable of getting messages out to followers. "They are spending a lot of time running and hiding," says a U.S. official, "but it doesn't take a lot of time to plot and scheme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al-Qaeda Now | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

...report says that in 1994 Hogan urged the California Public Utilities Commission to deregulate the state’s electricity market, according to “the ‘Enron model’—the deregulation scheme that Enron had already used to deregulate and manipulate the gas market...

Author: By Joseph P. Flood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HarvardWatch Links Professor to Enron | 5/22/2002 | See Source »

White had plenty of problems before the Crusader came along. Last week the Wall Street Journal reported that internal Enron documents suggested that White's unit, Energy Services, played a role in the price-fixing scheme involving California electricity. (White denied wrongdoing.) But White's clock was ticking even before that. He has had trouble explaining why he delayed selling Enron stock that he had been ordered to drop. Last spring he made an ill-considered trip to sell real estate in Colorado--on a government plane. All of which just made it easier for Rumsfeld to make an example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Taste of Rummy's Way | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

Fortuyn, 54, was a man for confrontation, not consensus. He wanted to re-establish Dutch border controls and let in refugees only from Britain, Denmark, France and Germany. He sought to dial back the generous disability scheme that supports the roughly 15% of Dutch workers who claim they can't work for medical reasons. At least a quarter of the state bureaucracy should be laid off, Fortuyn maintained, while at the same time the number of regional governments should be doubled and schools made smaller. A Fortuyn government would not only reintroduce the draft, but also mandate a special four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Culture Shock | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

John A. Fries, a junior at MIT, then hatched the devious scheme of posing as a Crimson reporter to steal back...

Author: By Maria S. Pedroza, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: First-Years’ Paw Prank Foiled by MIT Imposter | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

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