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...Enron watchers who feared things might be getting stale, last week brought fresh material for outrage. Although whistle blower Sherron Watkins testified in Congress that she believed former CEO Kenneth Lay was "duped" by underlings about accounting abuses, a trove of newly released exchanges shows just how chummy Lay was with George W. Bush in his days as Texas Governor. In one note Bush teases Lay about getting older; in another Lay scribbles that he's "so proud" of the Governor and his wife. Beyond the niceties, Lay repeatedly seeks Bush's support for legislation that would benefit Enron...
Criticisms of the “axis of evil” doctrine, so fashionable in the world of Harvardian intellectual snobbery, have by now grown quite stale. Nobody who matters believes any of them. Bush’s political opponents certainly don’t. I recall a certain House Minority Leader, in the Democratic response to the State of the Union, saying of President Bush, “there is no daylight between us on this war on terrorism.” The American public certainly doesn’t. In an ABC poll released this week, Bush came...
...movie was put on hold after the events of Sept. 11. Released last weekend, the picture has all the ingredients for success: a patriotic theme and a war on terrorism waged by America’s favorite muscle-bound stalwart. The ingredients are timeless, but the product is stale. The plot revolves around firefighter Gordon Brewer (Schwarzenegger), whose wife and son are killed in an explosion set by Colombian terrorist El Lobo. When the terrorist eludes capture, Brewer decides to seek vengeance for his family...
Though Reich lacks insider status in the Massachusetts political establishment, this should not prevent him from having a place on the primary ballot. His candidacy should prove to be a breath of fresh air in the stale atmosphere of Massachusetts politics...
...with CBS fell apart when he failed to come up with a show that the network liked. He also turned down a prime-time variety show for ABC, feeling it was too similar to TRL. Believing that the standard monologue-sketch-interview format for late-night shows has grown stale, he says he accepted the three-year contract with the hope that, over time, he can come up with something different. "I look at it as a testing ground for the future of late night. The old format is pretty passe," he says. His MTV contract...