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There?s a new "white knight" for the damsel in distress that is Enron. Oak Brook, Ill.-based power-plant developer Standard Power and Light wants to buy Enron for less than $1 a share (about what it?s trading at right now). But the company might want to proceed cautiously - look what happened to Dynergy, Enron?s last would-be savior. As Enron filed for the biggest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history, it sued Dynegy for "not less than" $10 billion, charging them with using disingenuous merger talks to "put an end to Enron as a competitive force...
Fast-forward to 2001. Korpi, who before retirement had roamed no farther from Flint, Mich., than Mexico and Canada, is an international troubleshooter who analyzes plant operations and car dealerships in places like Indonesia, Thailand and China. In November 1999, he hooked up with Jefferson Wells International, a firm that places auditors, accountants and other specialists in temporary assignments. The jobs are fulfilling and lucrative. Yet he manages to play plenty of golf. His GM buddies are amazed. So is Korpi: "I still can't believe I asked for the extra 15 days to think about...
...person who apparently shares that view is Mohammed Azin. A peasant sharecropper outside the town, he stopped planting opium poppies after the Taliban banned the golden harvest last year and decimated the country's poppy fields. Azin's annual income shrank fivefold, he says, to less than $150. His nine children dress in rags, and his own flowing salwar kameez is so threadbare it has split at both elbows. He stands barefoot in his freshly plowed field with a football-sized lump of opium seeds gathered into the front of his garment. With flicks of his right hand, he scatters...
...sweatshop activitsts applauded a rare victory in union-organizing when factory workers and representatives of the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC), a non-profit sweatshop watchdog group, testified to the “unprecendented” success of recent efforts to create an independent, democratic union in the Kukdong apparel plant in Mexico last Thursday...
Butt’s work also touches upon her relationship with the world as a place of comfort. Represented by a potted plant in many of her paintings, Butt’s symbol for the world shifts between the figure’s lap, head and shoulders. In one painting, its tendrils wrap around the artist, partially shielding her from falling bubbles containing words such as “doubt” and “suspicion.” In another, they protect a serene woman from the attack of three vicious birds. In a third, the plant rests...