At risk of all-Enron-all-the-time . . . it's Friday
Karl Rove, President Bush's top political adviser, recommended the
Republican strategist Ralph Reed to the Enron Corporation for a lucrative
consulting contract as Mr. Bush was weighing whether to run for president,
close associates of Mr. Rove say.
Analysis of the Source of the Anthrax Attacks, 17 January, 2002, by Barbara
Hatch Rosenberg, Federation of American Scientists.
The New National I.D. Card Is In Your Wallet, by Stephen Keating, Executive
Director, Privacy Foundation
But wait -- there's more on Enron: Ex-Workers Say Unit's Earnings Were
'Illusory'
Data Collectors Need Surveillance, Too: Aggregators that sell info to
government agencies aren't liable for its accuracy, nor are guidelines in
place about how it's used. By Jane Black, in BusinessWeekOnline.
Oh, hold on a minute, we're not done with Enron: National Security Council
Aided Enron's Efforts: Agency Sought Lay Meeting With Indians on Plant, by
Dana Milbank and Alan Sipress, Washington Post.
The White House's National Security Council is the president's nerve center
for international crises and strategy. For a moment last year, it also
acted as a sort of concierge service for Enron Chairman Kenneth L. Lay and
India's national security adviser, Brajesh Mishra.
Whopper of the Week: Linda Chavez The onetime labor secretary nominee
elaborates on her affection for unions. By Timothy Noah, in Slate.
Quite a piece on the differences between spinning and lying and between
politics and business: Business Spin, by Michael Kinsley, in The Washington
Post.
What Phil Agre calls more news links about Enron than you could possibly
want: http://enron.newstrove.com/
Also, more polling information than you could possibly want: http://
pollingreport.com/
Some of my students are Teaching Philosophy to Adolescents.
There's still time for members of the public to comment on the proposed
Microsoft antitrust settlement before it is accepted by the court.
