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...strokes and diabetes have left Wahid with no vision, so he relies on a group of close aides and family members to brief him, read documents and even describe the body language of people he is meeting. Many fear this system is open to abuse. "His inner circle poses the greatest threat," says Zastrouw Ngatawi, a former assistant and author of a book about Wahid. "People are [invoking] his name, and this will distract from the ideas he is trying...
...market masquerading as a competitive market," charges Michael Shames, executive director of the San Diego-based Utility Consumers' Action Network. Prices for electricity have been spiking up in some regions; capacity is lagging demand, threatening customers across the nation with brownouts and blackouts this summer. "The cookie jar is open, and everyone wants to get what they can," Hawkins says. "They've got it, we need it, and we're going to pay through the nose...
...power companies be short of power? Under deregulation, vertically integrated utilities like SDG&E and Con Ed (as in Edison, as in Thomas Edison, the man who electrified Manhattan) were allowed to sell their power-generation businesses and become middlemen that buy electricity on the open market from new generator operators and distribute it to their customers. "We work hard to find the best deal for our customers," says Steve Bram, Con Ed's senior vice president of central operations. "But we're at the mercy of the sellers." Those sellers, on the other hand, are at the mercy...
...create an industry-oversight committee--this isn't an election year, is it?--to handle disputes and ensure the reliability of electricity nationwide. More ominous, in California the outcry has been so intense that utility officials recently lowered the price cap on rates that generators can charge on the open market. While that may help ease pricing pressure in the near term, it could easily backfire. Says Stephen Baum, vice chairman of Sempra Energy, parent company of SDG&E: "This would simply create a shortage. Those generators might just sell their energy elsewhere." If that happens, Mike Hawkins and lots...
...vehicle for social change, the open letter has accomplished just slightly more than the limerick, but it remains a wonderful medium for airing public squabbles. Spike Lee's most recent venting appeared in the Hollywood Reporter, decrying the curious lack of slaves in the Mel Gibson movie The Patriot, set in 1776. "While holding myself back from shouting at the screen, I kept wondering, Where are the slaves? Who's picking the cotton?" Indeed, screenwriter Robert Rodat gives Gibson's South Carolina gentleman farmer a cadre of African-American "employees" who refer to themselves as free men. "Did Rodat...