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Friday, Feb 01, 2002

sorosport

"The billionaire financier George Soros was host of a party with Klaus Schwab, the Swiss business professor who created and rules over the World Economic Forum, on Wednesday in honor of "social entrepreneurs" � that's philanthropists, not climbers. When told of the Elton John extravaganza � seated dinner and a serenade by Sir Elton � his eyes widened in disbelief.

"I wasn't invited," Mr. Soros said. "Then again, the traffic is so bad I don't want to go anywhere."

spy games

"WASHINGTON -- Salt Lake City, which will host the Olympics next week, was the target of "meticulous" surveillance by Osama bin Laden's spies, according to a top U.S. intelligence official."

layed out

"As the General Accounting Office prepares to go to court to force Vice President Cheney to turn over to Congress an account of his secret meetings with energy industry executives, an interview with FRONTLINE last May shows Lay acknowledging that he told Cheney about Enron's advice regarding the government's new energy program. In the interview by journalist Lowell Bergman to be broadcast on NOW WITH BILL MOYERS tonight at 9:00 on PBS, Lay claims that he was unaware that he was the only CEO of a major electric energy company to confer privately with the Vice President as he formulated his national energy strategy."

newsdumb

Big Names, Little News--This Is CNN?

waxing and waning

"BUZZFLASH: As a congressman, what do you think are the most important goals of the various Congressional investigations into Enron and the energy panel?

CONGRESSMAN WAXMAN: Our focus on the Enron issue has to be to evaluate how a small group of insiders, many of whom were well-connected politically, were able to loot the Enron Corporation and walk away with over a billion dollars, while at the same time, leaving employees and investors robbed of their financial security. I think Congress needs to know how it happened and why it happened, and who helped allow it to happen. And I don't think an investigation of the Enron debacle should only be on some narrow aspects of the Enron issue. I think it ought to be on the accounting practices at Enron, and their political ties. And nothing ought to be taken off the table. We ought to have a thorough and systematic examination of every aspect of this Enron scandal. I do believe it is a scandal because I believe that those who were the insiders in the Enron Corporation schemed to loot the company of over a billion dollars. And they hurt a lot of people in the process. I think that if you look at what happened at Enron, you have those who already had a lot, wanting a lot more. And they just took it at the expense of people who really didn't have much going for them. It's no different than somebody robbing thousands of houses and stealing people's life savings, when you look at what some of these people did in Enron, where they looted the corporation and stole the financial security out from under employees and investors."

a moore in houston

"I hardly ever talk to the guy, you said. You were like Peter outside the walls of Herod after they grabbed J.C. from the Garden of Gethsemane. Three times he denied he knew Jesus, and three times the cock crowed. But Peter, unlike you, felt shame and wept, and then ran away."

security complex

"Federal aviation authorities and technology companies will soon begin testing a vast air security screening system designed to instantly pull together every passenger's travel history and living arrangements, plus a wealth of other personal and demographic information."

Thursday, Jan 31, 2002

the day after

tom tomorrow blogs

killing me softly

killing the buddha

noho star

"Now, Cafeteria, which has a restaurant on Seventh Avenue, plans to open an 11,000- square-foot, 24-hour restaurant that will stretch along Lafayette from Great Jones to Bond Street, engulfing the Jones Diner site.

Community Board 2 on Thursday denied Cafeteria's request for the variance it needs to build its three-story, $4 million restaurant, unless the Jones Diner can be incorporated into the design. The Board of Standards and Appeals will consider the request."

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