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...When Fastow and Skilling went back to CalPERS in 1997 with jedi ii, the natural gas projects had been replaced by unspecified energy projects. CalPERS pulled out of jedi ii in October 2000 to invest in something simpler and more transparent, and Fastow scrambled to set up an entity to take its place. Known as Chewco, it was a partnership controlled by Enron employees, including Kopper. According to the Powers report, Chewco and similar partnerships were engaged in shuffling assets to cover losses and create illusory profits. As a result, Enron overstated earnings by $1 billion from the third quarter...
Daguerreotypy may be an antiquated art of a simpler age, but for its complexity and breathtaking artistry, the technique certainly warrants attention in the here...
Most likely, he is some indistinct combination of all three. But lawyers often skate over such complexities, and last week the U.S. Department of Justice and Lindh's liberal San Francisco attorney, James Brosnahan, squared off with simpler stories. If the case against Lindh goes to a jury, as Brosnahan predicts, it will turn on which story seems more plausible...
...sold in the U.S. are Macs. (Don't ask about worldwide sales, where Apple has actually slipped to less than 3% of the market, from 5.2% five years ago.) With Microsoft's antitrust troubles tabled for now and a new operating system, Windows XP, that's stabler and simpler to use than ever, Apple will be hard pressed to attract converts...
...There was no reason to think that they would converge on the same molecular pathway, but in retrospect, it makes perfect sense. It turns out that certain aspects of the brain are simpler than we thought,” Weitz said...