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Enron’s Dirty Laundry How a vicious, 10-year rivalry between two top executives helped create the sex-drenched, out-of-control corporate culture that ultimately wrecked the company. By Johnnie L. Roberts and Evan Thomas NEWSWEEK March 11 issue — The U.S. Senators seemed a little taken aback by the gall of the star witness. Hauled before a congressional committee last week, former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling not only declined to take the Fifth, he seemed unrepentant, unbowed, at times defiant. He insisted he had never lied. Enron’s problems were all someone else’s fault. SCANDAL JUNKIES, who had been looking forward to a showdown ...

NEW YORK- A disputed, prize-winning book about the role of guns in the United States will undergo a formal inquiry from Emory University, where author Michael Bellesiles is a professor of history. In a statement released this week, Emory official Robert A. Paul said that the Atlanta-based school has initiated a process for "addressing allegations of misconduct in research." "Both the history department and Michael Bellesiles have now requested that we initiate this process, and we have done so," said Paul, dean of Emory College, an undergraduate division of the university. "Professor Bellesiles says that he welcomes the review by ...

A Texas man was sexually tortured and held against his will for nine days inside a downtown flower shop by its owner in Wayne, Nebraska, it was reported on Friday. Business owner Roger Van, 55, is accused of luring 36-year-old Jonathan Cooper of Houston to the small college town last month via the Internet to begin a "sadistic bondage" relationship. MORE Their relationship included various forms of sex and torture. Authorities would not elaborate. Another man, 36-year-old Jerry Marshall, also participated, said police. Van and Marshall were charged Thursday with sexual assault, two counts of assault, false imprisonment and terroristic ...

VANCOUVER (CP) - American actor Michael Moriarty, best known for his role on the hit TV series Law & Order, was in hospital Wednesday after he was beaten outside a Vancouver-area pub, a Vancouver TV station reported. The station quoted sources as saying Moriarty, 60, was set upon early Wednesday in the parking lot of a Maple Ridge hotel after an evening of drinking. The sources said three to five men attacked Moriarty and the attack was unprovoked. Ridge Meadows Hospital in Maple Ridge would confirm only that Moriarty had been admitted. A year ago, Moriarty appeared in Vancouver provincial ...

Portland, OR, Jan. 9 - Someone apparently duped 500 chanting protesters into believing that President Bush had canceled his Saturday visit to a Northeast Portland job training center. The announcement, made over a bullhorn, prompted cheers and caused nearly everyone in the crowd to wander away happily, thinking that their presence had put a stop to the president's visit. They were wrong. Ten minutes later, the president's limousine came into sight for his visit to the job center on Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The 30 protesters remaining on the police line were unable to marshal much more than ...