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...Well-paid enron executives sold their inflated stock for millions, while low-level employees were prevented from selling theirs [NATION, Jan. 21]. This would be criminal if the executives knew the company was hiding huge debt. The problem is, we have seen this before. When it becomes routine for corporations to donate big bucks to both political parties and then seek bailouts, when workers get fleeced, while CEOs make more than an entire nation's GNP, our system has become horribly corrupt. Perhaps it is time for the kind of patriotism that inspires citizens finally to say Enough is enough...
...truly effective airport security, says Gritta, is eliminating the human factor altogether. No matter how well trained or well-paid you are, if you?re sitting at a scanning station for more than an hour at a time, you?re probably going to drift off occasionally. "But if there?s a way to automate the whole process, with fingerprint recognition techniques or highly sophisticated scanners," says Gritta, "we?d be a lot better...
...Khan is a well-paid bank executive and a family man. But he happens to believe with incandescent certainty that America is the enemy of Islam. According to Khan, the hijackers were warriors - not deranged terrorists - and their actions have guaranteed them a place in paradise. "It's true many innocents died in the U.S., but this is war. We cannot always make a distinction between military and civilian targets," shrugged Khan, 42, who is bearded and wears the traditional Pakistani garb of long shirt and baggy cotton trousers...
...Yankees have Clemens and Derek Jeter and Bernie Williams, who are at least in the same Q-rating ballpark as Rodriguez and Griffey, but for the most part they're a team (if a deep and well-paid one) of hard-working below-the-fold-ers who happen to add up to championship after championship. After championship...
...Jose Antonio Olvera, a U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service inspector at Tijuana-San Ysidro border crossings, pleaded guilty to taking almost $90,000 in bribes to let drug shipments through. (Olvera claims he did it because the cartel had threatened to kidnap his five-year-old son.) "If relatively well-paid U.S. agents aren't immune to it," says one Mexican prosecutor, "how can we expect Mexican police...