Frank Rich in Sunday's NYT writes:
Indeed, if we go back to late 2001, the most revealing news story may have been unfolding not in New York but Houston — the site of the Enron scandal. That energy company convinced financial titans, the press and countless investors that it was a business deity. It did so even though very few of its worshipers knew what its business was. Enron is the template for the decade of successful ruses that followed, Tiger’s included.
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We always have photos in our memories that we never took. One of those for me is seeing in Penn Station, NYC, a huge banner signed by hundreds of Enron employees sending their sympathy and best wishes to the people of New York in the aftermath of 9-11. I saw the sign in late December, about now. Within days of my seeing it, Enron had folded and I imagined all those signatories to this banner out on the street without a job.
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*sigh* - what have we become?
Tiger will recover and in most states you still can't get married.
This all seems very wrong to me.
People want to stop any health care reform and yet financial scandals abound. Enron seems like small potatoes in the light of what we see today.
It makes me feel despair.
Corruption runs deep...even a Church, it´s a huge and destructive force of selfrighteousness with a greed/egodriven base...being exposed is never nice...I´m always flabbergasted by the CRIMINALS (both in and outside of religion) are FURIOUS when apprehended! Like it was someone else fault? Let´s see how ++Rowan and Pope B react when the lights go on (or out).
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