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Still the question lingered: How much loss could we stand? CIA officer Johnny Micheal Spann (high school football player, loved Top Gun) had e-mailed his dad before his death, says the Washington Post, asking him to write to lawmakers. "Support your government and your military," he urged, "especially when the bodies start coming home." That was an extraordinary plea from a man heading into harm's way: Don't fail us; don't let us die in vain. Had he heard too often the expert condescension, that Americans only support wars that are quick and easy to win? There...
...writing, not big directorial names or fancy co-stars, that grabs LaPaglia's attention. He leapt for Lantana because of Andrew Bovell's script. Says LaPaglia: "A lot of writers...can write a lead guy, but they can't complete the satellite world around the main character. Andrew totally knows how to do that." So does Arthur Miller, and LaPaglia is close to putting together a film version of Bridge and dreams of doing Miller's After the Fall onstage. "It's never been very well received, but I had an idea that I think can make it work." Whatever...
...Picked on fellows. He loved to fight. But I never saw him in a getup with a fellow his own size. He had a kind of a wild tendency toward violence. I don't know why, because he was a very gifted writer. Who knows what prompts people to write or draw...
...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...
...fear of losing her job, Hilder says. "She thought it would be fruitless while he was there." When Skilling suddenly quit on Aug. 14, Lay called an all-employees meeting two days later and asked for comments from workers beforehand. That's when Watkins finally sat down to write a one-page anonymous letter on her computer at work. She dropped it in the box at headquarters the next...