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Three days later, at a lush West Virginia resort where congressional Republicans were holding their annual retreat, they heard the same news. G.O.P. strategists told the lawmakers that voter rage over Enron is becoming personal, with people's fears about their own retirement exceeding their appetite for campaign reform and their anger at what the now bankrupt company did. "Many employees looked at what happened to Enron, and it scares them to death," says Ohio Congressman John Boehner, the House Republicans' point man on pension issues. This is why the biggest news out of the retreat was the package...
...this is helping Lindh's defense team; attorney James Brosnahan is not having much luck finding an audience for his case, i.e. that Lindh is being used by the U.S. Justice Department as a sacrificial lamb in the war on terrorism. "In my view," he told reporters outside the Virginia courthouse, "they have brought out the cannon to shoot the mouse." The defense team will likely counter government claims that Lindh willingly joined in a jihad against Americans by arguing that when Lindh joined the Taliban, they were engaged in fighting the Northern Alliance - at the time, a long-standing...
...There is something profoundly authentic and genuine about Jennifer," says Ken Olin, who directed six of this season's episodes. "As stylized as the show can be, she's not a vamp. She inhabits this role like a nifty girl from West Virginia, which...
...occurrences center on Point Pleasant, on the Ohio River in West Virginia. What Washington Post reporter John Klein (Richard Gere) is doing there he can't explain. He is not on the way to his original destination, Richmond, Va. Nor can he or the local police officer (Laura Linney) understand all the weird sights, sounds and phone calls the townsfolk keep reporting. All Klein knows is that the goings-on resemble a vision his late wife had just before succumbing to a brain tumor...
...Zacarias Moussaoui, the first person indicted for the Sept. 11 attacks, goes on trial in Alexandria, Virginia...