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**Fact of the Week**
The Business Roundtable has correctly called for an end to the sort of corporate shenanigans that made Enron and Global Crossing into the equivalent of four-letter words. "Enough is enough," cries one of its ads. But of the ten leaders of the Business Roundtable, eight have compensation packages of at least $5 million. Of those eight companies, three had returns to shareholders from 1996 to 2001 that lagged what investors could earn in a money market fund. Source: Fortune, 12 August 2002.

**This week's columns**
Separate but Unequal Paul Corrigan Politicians, especially Republican politicians, keep lying to us about the burdens faced by the richest Americans. Go to article!	Tune Deaf Tim Francis-Wright Some advertisers have awfully strange notions of what constitutes appropriate music for their commercials. Go to article!

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Could 9/11 Have been Prevented?: Perhaps, if the Bush administration had taken seriously the work of the Clinton administration (Michael Elliott, Time).
On Being Called a Commie: Political correctness ought to mean blind adherence to the dominant ideology: today, that means American nationalism (Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice).
Bush Company Went Offshore: While George Bush was on its board of directors, Harken Energy set up a Cayman Islands subsidiary (Timothy Berger, New York Daily News).
Race in American Public Schools: Rapidly Resegregating School Districts: While the United States is more diverse than ever, schoolchildren are largely isolated from this growing diversity (Harvard University Civil Rights Project).
Is the Big-Business Era Over?: The American public now doubts that big business can regulate itself or deliver prosperity. (Roy Teixeira, The American Prospect).
Leafing Through the Bush Legacy: It takes most leaders years to develop their legacies; Bush has done so in only 18 months (Walt Brasch, CounterPunch).
Confidence Men: The myth of Republican competence persists despite the evidence to the contrary (Joshua Marshall, The Washington Monthly).
Majority Rules: America is in the midst of monumental changes in its politics, changes that help Democrats (John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira, The New Republic).
Bush's Conspiracy to Riot: The Bush recount committee's own IRS filings show that it paid the "rioters" who halted the Miami-Dade County recount (Consortium News).
Bush Falters but Who Dare Oppose Him?: The Democrats have a new lease of life that they seem reluctant to exploit (Todd Gitlin, The Observer).
Dem's Fightin' Words: Democrats will be continually clobbered until they embrace politics, become proud partisans, and figure out who they are (Michael Tomasky, The American Prospect).
Yes, We Need a "Regime Change" in This Rogue State...: But the state in question is not Iraq (Adrian Hamilton, The Independent).
Promoting Honesty by Releasing Corporate Tax Returns: Making corporate tax returns public is an old idea that may have new life (Joseph Thorndike, Tax Notes).

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