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Enron is not an aberration but the tip of a special-interest iceberg endangering Americans' future economic security. This is not a time for political rhetoric and blame placing by the White House and Congress. There is a growing corrupt and evil collaboration between government and business leadership in Washington. It involves many Republicans and Democrats in the Legislative and Executive branches who provide regulatory protection to U.S. corporations, unions and associations for campaign money. It's time to dissolve this corrupt capitalist partnership. CRAIG KAISER Arroyo Grande, Calif...
...into Shi'ite and Kurdish enclaves. But Khazraji's close ties to the seat of power in Iraq create problems for him. A court in Copenhagen is considering bringing war-crimes charges against Khazraji for the massacre of Kurds in northern Iraq in the late 1980s. Khazraji says the blame for the massacres lies entirely with Saddam...
...Blame it on the French. More than any other people, they have promoted the notion that the taste of a food is inextricably bound to the place where it is grown. As early as the 1920s, France's winemakers were restricting use of the term Bordeaux to wines produced in that area. In 1974 they engineered an international treaty that declared that only bubbly from the Champagne region could be labeled champagne, forcing other producers of sparkling wines (including vintners in Champagne, Switzerland) to scramble for synonyms like methode champagnoise...
...When it comes to money, Chinese basketball has hands of stone?a fact many owners and managers blame on the control-happy CBA itself. The league is run as a government sports program. Top officials are Communist Party appointees accustomed to top-down dictatorship?and the league's lack of marketing and promotional expertise shows. At the beginning of the season, CBA officials lost a $4.2 million marquee sponsorship and promotion contract when its would-be partner, Y.C. Advertising, a media company owned by Hong Kong's Tom.com, withdrew only a month before the season was to begin. Motorola stepped...
...Blame it on the French. More than any other people, they have promoted the notion that the taste of a food is inextricably bound to the place where it is grown. As early as the 1920s, France's winemakers were restricting use of the term Bordeaux to wines produced in that area. In 1974 they engineered an international treaty that declared that only bubbly from the Champagne region could be labeled champagne, forcing other producers of sparkling wines (including vintners in Champagne, Switzerland) to scramble for synonyms like mEthode champagnoise...