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The camera pans across the room
To see what she has made:
An omelette or a spring bouquet
Or just an inside trade.
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Spitzer's Shame is Wall Street's Gain
Robert Scheer: Why should we get all worked up over the revelation that the New York governor paid for sex?
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Corrupt Colleges, Student Debt
Nicholas von Hoffman: Corrupt college administrators have sold out students and buried them in a mountain of debt.
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Enron's Enablers
Robert Scheer: Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling would have remained small time crooks were it not for the energy industry deregulation measures they effectively purchased from Bush I and II.
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Your 401(k) Won't Help When You Need It
Nicholas von Hoffman: If you're depending on private savings accounts to get you through retirement, get ready for a bitter surprise, thanks to the crooks and incompetents charged with selling and running the funds.
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Enron's Enablers
Robert Scheer: As the Enron trial unfolds, it's depressing that Phil and Wendy Gramm, the company's political enablers, are going unpunished and uncriticized.
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Do the Crime, Do No Time
Nicholas von Hoffman: There ought to be a law about bribery in America, but there isn't--not a real one. Bribery is so central to our political culture that it's virtually impossible that any politician ensnared in the Abramoff scandal will actually be convicted of the corruption that makes Washington work.
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Conrad Black's Fall
Scott Sherman: Reading Patrick Fitzgerald's sixty-page indictment of publishing magnate Conrad Black and his associates, one gets the feeling that the next stop for this high-living power-broker will be a prison cell.
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A Citizen Who Has Tried to Keep Informed Addresses Those Covering the 2008 Presidential Election
Calvin Trillin: From the pulpit to the polling booth.
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John McCain, Demonstrating His Intention to Make Inroads Among African-American Voters...
Calvin Trillin: But guess who showed up instead?
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Patriotism, 2008
Calvin Trillin: What's that on your lapel?
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Stephen Hadley Says an Olympic Boycott Is a 'Cop-out' on the Tib
Calvin Trillin: Just keep it coming.
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Filling Mark Penn's Somewhat Mucky Shoes
Calvin Trillin: Don't these people ever learn?
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On the Struggle For The Democratic Nomination
Calvin Trillin: The race is theirs to lose.
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What Real Straight Talk From McCain Would Sound Like...
Calvin Trillin: This is just the beginning.
