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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...
...criminal charges proceed against the protesters—who face up to 10 years in prison—some warn activists elsewhere to beware what they see as crackdown on peace protests...
...wartime fervor of 1942, the U.S. Supreme Court ignored Roosevelt's order denying the German saboteurs access to the civilian court. The Court reached the merits of the saboteurs' appeal and upheld the convictions and the penalties - death by electrocution for all but the two defectors - to proceed...
...move on Taliban cities, and to encourage the formation of a southern front against the ruling militia. Still, nobody's expecting a speedy collapse of the regime that has hosted Osama Bin Laden. Which means that the hunt for Osama Bin Laden and his henchmen may have to proceed against the backdrop of an increasingly complex and messy war in Afghanistan...
...current, very unfamiliar situation, there?s little doubt about whether to proceed with an investigation. Do we need to investigate our colossal intelligence failures that led to September 11th? Of course we do, But this shouldn?t be just a blame rain dance, where the Beltway types just move the same problems from one box into another...