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Although the jury convicted the entire firm, it focused the blame on a single person, Andersen's Chicago-based lawyer Nancy Temple, who, according to the legalese, played the "corrupt persuader" who led others astray. Knowing the Securities and Exchange Commission was starting to scrutinize Enron's books, Temple told David Duncan, who supervised the account, to remove her name from a file memo that disagreed with Enron's characterization of a $1 billion loss as "non-recurring." Said prosecutor Andrew Weissman: "This is a perfect example of Arthur Andersen sanitizing the record so the SEC would have less information...
...have had it with people blaming the FBI for Sept. 11! Does anybody really believe it was the fault of the bureau, or is it just the scapegoat? To say the agents were caught with their pants down makes a great story, but can we expect the FBI to be absolutely flawless? Can we expect agents to weed through the thousands of terrorist threats made against the U.S., omnipotently knowing which ones to take seriously? I think the FBI does an exceptional job, considering the hand it is dealt every day. Who knows how many times its agents have saved...
RESIGNED. S. VANCE WILKINS JR., 65, as the first G.O.P. speaker of the Virginia house; in Richmond; under growing pressure from fellow Republicans. Wilkins, accused of groping two women, denied making unwanted advances but said, "I don't blame anyone for my troubles. Most of them I brought on myself...
...must stop trying to blame any one person or group for Sept. 11 while we attempt to prevent further attacks. We should take a look at what happened during the attack on Pearl Harbor and afterward and then work as a country to accomplish our goals. As with Pearl Harbor, we were all complacent, thinking we were immune and not realizing the potential of our enemy. Everyone is accountable: the news media, the CIA, our military, Congress and the general public. But instead of working as a team, everyone is pointing fingers. How soon we forgot the lessons of Pearl...
...phrase has fallen out of use in recent years. These days, aggressive journalists?and impatient fans?won't take inexplicability as an excuse. So much emotion and money is invested in sports, blame must be apportioned, scapegoats identified: the referee was incompetent, the other side cheated, the coach was clueless or, if nothing else is plausible, one of "our boys" let the team down. Last week, all these anguished complaints were being aired in newspaper columns, TV talk shows and coffeehouse conversations in Paris, Buenos Aires and Lisbon...