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...took Watkins weeks to work up the nerve to write her first letter to Lay. She had been working for chief financial officer Andrew Fastow last summer, looking for assets to sell as Enron ran into financial trouble while transforming itself into a company that traded energy, water, weather derivatives and anything else it could turn into a commodity. Watkins wanted to help, but everywhere she looked she ran into off-the-books arrangements that no one could explain or seemed to want to investigate. She knew that others who had pressed then CEO Jeffrey Skilling about the investments...
...having assumed that these phrases, drawn from my notes, were my words, not hers. I made the corrections she requested, and the matter was completely laid to rest-until last week, when the Weekly Standard published an article reviving the issue. The larger question for those of us who write history is to understand how citation mistakes can happen...
...wanted to quote directly were noted along with general notes on the ideas and story lines of each book. Notes on all these sources were then arranged chronologically and kept in dozens of folders in 25 banker's boxes. Immersed in a flood of papers, I began to write the book. After each section and each chapter was completed, I returned the notes to the boxes along with notations for future footnoting. When the manuscript was finished, I went back to all these sources to check the accuracy of attributions. As a final protection, I revisited the 300 books themselves...
...night, the priest gave each of us musicians something like $15. In 1964 this was equivalent to, like, $15,000. You mean you get paid for this? I thought. I knew at that moment: I was going to play rock 'n' roll. I was going to write it, sing it, perform it and record it. I was going to live...
...megatons, enough to obliterate a major metropolitan center and the surrounding countryside. But what troubles most scientists is that the asteroid was detected only two weeks before it flew by. If it had been headed toward impact, those in the target area would have had barely enough time to write their wills. Eleanor Helin, whose Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking group discovered the asteroid, estimates that, on average, one object the size of 2001 YB5 or larger passes close by annually; many such asteroids are undetected. Her goal, and that of the other asteroid hunters, is to identify the intruders, plot...