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Fact of the Week

**Fact of the Week**
Over the past 42 months, scores of executives at telecommunications companies made huge profits selling stock. Counting sales made by their relatives, 99 executives had profits of over $10 million. Of these sellers, 57 made over $25 million, 26 made over $50 million, and 12 made over $100 million. These totals do not include profits on shares granted to executives by vendors or suppliers. Source: New York Times chart, 25 August 2002, Section 3, page 10.

**This week's columns**
Play Gall! Paul Corrigan From the White House to the baseball stadium, the American people are being played for fools. Read Play Gall!	Messed Up in Texas Tim Francis-Wright If someone had drafted the Texas Republican Party Platform as an attempt at satire, Americans would deem it in bad taste. Too bad it's for real. Read Messed Up in Texas!
Bear Left Review of Books Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser The uniquely American phenomenon of fast food has deep and troubling ramifications for American society. Go to review!

Israeli Nuclear Forces, 2002: Here are the facts about the real weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East (Robert Norris, William Arkin, Hans Kristensen, and Joshua Handler, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists).
Corporate Capture: The Earth Summit augurs to be a disaster (George Monbiot, The Guardian).
Argentine Military Believed U.S. Gave Go-Ahead for Dirty War: Declassified documents show complicity between Henry Kissinger and the Argentine government (National Security Archive).
Stroke the Rich: Bush is hoping to bail out wealthy investors by increasing the allowance for capital losses (William Saletan, Slate.com).
November Surprise?: In Washington, the question about Iraq is not whether America will attack, but when it will (James Ridgeway, Village Voice).
The Real Thing: Conservatives in America consistently rely on a fake and cynical populism belied by their policies (Paul Krugman, New York Times).

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