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...took Watkins weeks to work up the nerve to write her first letter to Lay. She had been working for chief financial officer Andrew Fastow last summer, looking for assets to sell as Enron ran into financial trouble while transforming itself into a company that traded energy, water, weather derivatives and anything else it could turn into a commodity. Watkins wanted to help, but everywhere she looked she ran into off-the-books arrangements that no one could explain or seemed to want to investigate. She knew that others who had pressed then CEO Jeffrey Skilling about the investments...
...teens around that they just hand over the keys as soon as their kids get licenses. He suggests that parents institute their own graduated-driving program. Berardelli and other safety advocates say parents should expose their kids to up to 100 hours of supervised driving, in all kinds of weather and highway situations, before these teens are permitted to get their license. "Teens who would do anything to avoid a parent's company don't seem to mind being seen with one--as long as the kid is in the driver's seat. So have your kids drive you everywhere...
...took Watkins weeks to work up the nerve to write her first letter to Lay. She had been working for chief financial officer Andrew Fastow last summer, looking for assets to sell as Enron ran into financial trouble while transforming itself into a company that traded energy, water, weather derivatives and anything else it could turn into a commodity. Watkins wanted to help, but everywhere she looked she ran into off-the-books arrangements that no one could explain or seemed to want to investigate. She knew that others who had pressed then ceo Jeffrey Skilling about the investments...
...year kidnapped and beheaded Californian Guillermo Sobero. Sending U.S. troops to help wipe out Abu Sayyaf may be part of a strategy to eliminate havens of lawlessness in which al Qaeda may attempt to regroup. It's a project enthusiastically supported by the Philippine government, which has made heavy weather of its own efforts to destroy the group, and even fellow Muslim secessionists will weep few tears over the passing of Abu Sayyaf...
...moral of the story, campaign-finance-reform-wise, may well be that a political donation only gets you so far, and that the friends a campaign check makes you will be fair-weather ones indeed. When it's all over, we may find that this Administration, with a war to worry about and a honor-and-dignity-of-the-office mandate to maintain, did indeed act with particular rectitude in this case despite its Enron ties (or, again, perhaps because of them). Maybe we'll decide that Republicans, who hob-nob with rich business leaders all the time, are therefore...