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Enron was becoming a virtual cult of creativity, often placing swagger over substance. New ideas were celebrated for their newness, for their potential; tried and true businesses like the pipelines were almost derided.
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Enron would keep its unearned windfall, generated solely because David Duncan didn't know what he was doing.
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I finally understood--I possessed more control than I had believed. Healthy people didn't always understand the scope of how much could be overcome. I certainly never had before I got sick.
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Fastow had found someone trusting and pliable. Fastow wanted a pupet, Bowen concluded, and he already controlled Ben Glisan's strings. p.338
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A eureka moment. It suddenly struck Mintz as so obvious. The executives entrusted with reviewing all of the LJM transactions- Causey, Buy, the board- approached their duties casually, giving everything just the onceover. They seemed to figure that somebody else was doing the tough analysis. But no one was. p.389
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In a market, preceptions could be as important as reality. p.403
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Kaminski plunged ahead. "I am not going to sign off on anything related to the Raptors," he said. "And I don't care if I'm fired for it." Buy raised a hand. "Whoa, wait a minute, I don't think you'll be fired," he replied quickly. "Now that Skilling's gone, we have a different mantra in Enron." He looked Kaminski in the eye. "We're expected to be honest", he said. p.525"
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Excuse me, Ben," Bowen said. "Am I wrong, or aren't you the corporate treasurer?" Glisan bristled. "Yes." "What do you mean, you think you can get one?" Bowen shot back. "This is the current fucking maturities schedule! Go get it. You have to have a maturities schedule!" But they didn't. With all the focus on deals and earnings- with finance group's transformation into a profit center rather than a division to support the business- the work..
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Quand ils chassent, les ours polaires attendent pres d'un trou sur la glace qu'un phoque sorte la tete. Ils gardent une pate sur un museau pour se fondre dans le paysage parce qu'ils ont le bout du nez noir, sans ca ils passeraient inapercus... La question c'est : comment ils savent qu'ils ont le bout du nez noir ? Est-ce qu'ils regardent d'autres ours ? Est-ce qu'ils voient leur reflet dans l'eau et se disent : "sans ca je serais invisible..
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There was analysis dating back years that demonstrated Saddam had no such arsenal. Yet even though it was his group that handled Iraq, it hadn't been asked for input on
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The CIA had no doubt that the weapons were there, while the Pentagon was unsure whether the capacity to make them even existed. It was as if the intelligence analysts were saying that they were confident that Saddam's wife was ready to give birth, but remained uncertain if she was pregnant.
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public defender's office, Epstein
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These tariffs were a public slap in the face to America's most loyal friend, delivered with a private wink that it was really just a charade. This decision, Meyer fumed, was reprehensible.
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Black wanted to discuss everything that had since been green-lighted, but most of it remained classified. He could only hint at the magnitude of the problems caused by skittishness among policy makers--and their recent conversion to born-again belligerence in the war on terror.
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Bush said. "This is a great opportunity. We can change and improve our relations with countries around the world."
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I have concluded on the basis of classified information that Arar is unequivocally inadmissible to the United States," the"
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The classified information was nothing more than the statements from El-Maati and Almalki that had been extracted by torture, and Omar Khadr's false identification of Arar.
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There were also rules, he said, that applied to how to treat captured enemies. "You can't use force just to interrogate."
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Whitman approached Friend. "Dorie?" she said. "Can we speak?" Whitman waited until everyone else left the room to say more. "I want to tell you, if Kurt sues the school, he will win," she said. "And not only that--I'll testify on his behalf." --
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with growing horror. People at the school had lied to them directly, pretending I was making up stories. The tape ended. No one spoke. "Well?" I asked. "I'm calling your lawyer," my mother finally said. "And," my father added, "let's call your friend at Health and Human Services." He shook his head, a fury on his face unlike any I had ever seen. "We're going to destroy this school," he muttered coldly."
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For the first time, I noticed the work being performed by the rest of the team. No conversation, every face serious. A woman removed wrapping from a tray. At some point, I noticed a sealed bag with a needle in it. By my guess, it was six inches long. Then I saw another device that looked like a giant corkscrew, only straight. "Mom?" I said. She was nearby, behind all the staff dashing about. I assumed she had been asking plenty of questions..
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As I sat in the deli, I had no idea I was watching my mother transform; she was resolving to no longer stand helplessly on the sidelines and instead to fight to end the chaos. She had allowed my father to seize the role of overseer of my medical care, then hadn't fought back when I insisted on finding my own doctor in Pennsylvania--all with disastrous results. If she hadn't forced me into Northwestern, I would have been dead. Only her decis..
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The lead of the first major Times article written by copy boy KURT EICHENWALD, 1986 LINDEN--Fuzzy peach navel is the recommended drink at the Old Tavern Inn here, one of the latest and most unlikely ripple effects of the American auto industry's march toward high technology.
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It's all a question of people reading each other correctly and treating each other correctly. I think that that's true in every marriage and I think what happens in marriages that fall apart is people don't try to understand each other and don't try to figure out how the other one works. It is also very, very possible that the fact that he had epilepsy and the fact that I have my own baggage made us pay more attention to each other and reco..
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You have to stop depending on your roommates. I want you to speak to the Swarthmore administration, the health center, and school security. If they know what's going on and how to deal with it, you can go anywhere by yourself. So promise me you'll speak to those people." The thought terrified me, but I agreed. "You also need a doctor at the health center, and I want you to see a school psychologist, to help you handle the emotional challeng..
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That's illegal," the counselor sputtered. If Swarthmore received federal money--and it almost certainly did--they were violating Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities. I was free to leave school if I chose, but they couldn't force me out."
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Now he was being questioned by the Americans while on board the USS Bataan,
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I had been assigned to a four-person suite in Wharton Hall, among the most popular and storied dormitories on campus. Built in 1903, it exuded quaint collegiate charm. Gargoyles depicting every season and the signs of the zodiac decorated eaves of the building. Wrapping around three sides of an expansive patio, Wharton featured some of Swarthmore's largest dorm rooms; ours included two bedrooms and a living area that easily accommodated fou..
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Never lie, assess character, appeal to principles, answer every question, and determine what impediments might keep them from speaking. Reporters need persistence, not the name of some major publication behind them, to crack a story.
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Okay," he said. "You're right. You weren't invited. Now I'm inviting you. Will you come?" I smiled and sat up. "Absolutely." And that was it. There was no further discussion about our troubled year, no recriminations. Apparently, my decision to move out had been effective. From that moment on, my friendship with Carl and Franz was restored. We remain close to this day."
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I don't understand," she said. "What?" "Why do you need a letter?" "Well, to explain--" "Kurt," she interrupted, "don't you know? You're graduating with academic distinction."
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I stood, ready to walk out on this point. "No matter what happens in the future, no matter what I become, I will never return here. I will, however, contribute ten dollars a year by deducting it from what Swarthmore owes me. Which means I'll be long dead before the school gets a dime." "I'm sorry you feel that way," Stott said. "And I'm sorry this happened to you." I choked up. Stott, uninvolved in my dismissal, was the only person at Swart..
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