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...stretching them wider--are all too obvious. Mike Aguirre, a San Diego lawyer who specializes in fraud and is representing California in one of its suits against Enron, took an energy-trading course in Houston last year in an enterprising bid to understand what the other side was being taught. There he learned Megawatt Laundering, or how to sell California its own electricity for a higher price by pretending it came from out of state. He also learned the Daisy Chain Swap, or how to form a temporary cartel with other traders to inflate prices. "It's clear these companies...
...enjoyed the Phantom Menace and can't wait to see Attack of the Clones. Filmmaker George Lucas has taught the world the meaning of special effects and deserves all the credit he gets. I don't believe it's fair to criticize his approach to making the Star Wars films. He has the ability to make exciting movies, and if it takes years of solitude between making them, that's fine with me. Titanic can't compare in quality and ingenuity with the Star Wars saga. REBECCA SAKSEFSKI Louisville...
...blockmates, boyfriends and professors and everyone else who made life at Harvard so darn fun and interesting and fabulous (’cause it’s what you learn outside the classroom that counts, right?) There are the awful, predictable theme columns—Fifteen Lessons Harvard Has Taught Me, or Sixty-Eight Life-Changing Things to Do Before You Graduate. And then there are the weirdly angry columns that crop up from time to time—How Harvard Does Women/Blacks/Conservatives/Me Wrong, Why I Hate Everyone Here and so forth...
...Trained in skydiving, demolition and weapons handling, they were taught to kill with an ax and to hit an enemy in the eye with a knife from 10 meters. They learned to live off raw snakes and rats. Before each drill, they were made to bellow: "If you're caught, blow yourself up." Anyone who fell behind faced a beating from their guard-trainers. One recruit died in swimming endurance training, another fell off a cliff. The guards took one laggard into the ocean and nearly drowned him. Later they buried him on the beach with his head sticking...
...excited; Bourassa had just fed Max some red meat as part of a training exercise, and the lion may have smelled the meat on Bourassa's latex glove. She was standing behind a safety fence, but apparently wrapped a finger around one of the bars - an encroachment zookeepers are taught to avoid...