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...today. Joe Lieberman, positioning himself for 2004 from the big chair at the Governmental Affairs Committee, is running the Democratic show in the Senate. He'll be trying to stay centrist with fellow Democrat Carl Levin on his left and Fred Thompson on his right - and $11,500 from Arthur Andersen and $2,000 from Enron since 1989 in his pocket. In the House, the Republicans are eager to show they can be tough on Big Business too - James Greenwood, chairman of the Energy and Commerce oversight committee (a wholly owned subsidiary of Billy Tauzin's Energy and Commerce committee...
...there's only one witness capable of putting butts in congressional seats - David Duncan, the fired lead Enron auditor who led the shredding at Arthur Andersen, did appear Thursday under subpoena in front of Greenwood's oversight gang. But Duncan, with all Andersen's fingers pointed squarely at him, took the Fifth and will hold out until he gets an immunity deal. So as the House got under way Thursday, fed live to the cable news networks, it was Andersen partner C.E. Andrews, and in-house lawyer Nancy Temple splitting hairs about when Justice called and the shredding stopped...
Business writer DANIEL KADLEC once again dives into the stirring political and financial tale of Kenneth Lay, Arthur Andersen and the fallen Texas energy-trading giant known as Enron. Talk to Dan about one of the largest and most spectacular corporate collapses in U.S. history and what it will mean for shareholders, politicians and Enron execs, on Wednesday...
...lower-class characters who are inarticulate about their deeper, darker feelings. It is easy to respect the work that goes into these portrayals--and, indeed, LaPaglia won a Tony for his performance as Eddie Carbone, tragically haunted by incestuous feelings for his niece in the 1998 Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge. But these are not figures the public readily takes to heart...
...stars, that grabs LaPaglia's attention. He leapt for Lantana because of Andrew Bovell's script. Says LaPaglia: "A lot of writers...can write a lead guy, but they can't complete the satellite world around the main character. Andrew totally knows how to do that." So does Arthur Miller, and LaPaglia is close to putting together a film version of Bridge and dreams of doing Miller's After the Fall onstage. "It's never been very well received, but I had an idea that I think can make it work." Whatever that is, you may be sure it will...