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To: lurqer who wrote (21019)	6/25/2003 3:37:44 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

lurqer: I doubt The Justice Department will really ever give Mr. Ken Lay the punishment he deserves. Yet, here's a good review of Borowitz's book... amazon.com From Publishers Weekly New Yorker and NPR humorist Borowitz, author of the stock-market populism spoof The Trillionaire Next Door, sends up both corporate criminals and business literature in this rather funny book. With tongue firmly in cheek, Borowitz distills platitudes from countless business and leadership manuals and applies them to the context of the maximum security penitentiary. All the cliches are there: the leadership slogans (incarcerated CEO's should "be proactive" by starting riots instead of waiting to be made the cellblock bitch); the relentless positive thinking ("you'll emerge from your time in the joint more productive, more innovative, and millions of dollars wealthier than you were on the day the prison guard first checked you for lice"); the self-improvement schemas ("the Seven Habits of Highly Effective Prisoners"); the spurious soulfulness ("if being in prison is no longer about having fun, then what's the point?"); and the game theory buzz-concepts ("Win/Win" strategies usually lose out in prison to "Win/Die" strategies). Borowitz gives a pitch-perfect rendition of the vacuities of some business books, but given a genre in which Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun was a bestseller, his smart little book hardly seems like a parody. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. Book Description Attention, CEOs: Finally, a book you don't have to cook! If you're a CEO who's just been caught, this is the book you won't want to be caught without. Who Moved My Soap? The CEO's Guide to Surviving in Prison is loaded with helpful tips, including: • How to go from "bitch" to "boss" in one week or less • The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Prisoners • Complete prison-slang/corporate-speak glossary • Prison cell feng shui • How to avoid getting back-stabbed -- literally • The Zagat guide to fine prison dining

To: lurqer who wrote (21019)	6/25/2003 3:59:34 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Iraqi information minister nabbed in Baghdad: British report Wed Jun 25, 7:07 AM ET Add Mideast - AFP to My Yahoo! LONDON (AFP) - Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraq (news - web sites)'s information minister at the end of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s regime, has been captured in Baghdad, a British newspaper claimed. The Daily Mirror said al-Sahaf -- nicknamed "comical Ali" for his robust denials that Baghdad was falling to US troops -- was snared in his car at a US military roadblock on Monday. In a dispatch from Baghdad, it said al-Sahaf's captors allowed him to go back to a house where he had apparently been holed up with his wife and three children "to collect a toothbrush, razor and book." "He has some serious talking to do... this time," the tabloid, which had strongly opposed the US-led war to oust Saddam, quoted a "senior coalition source" as saying. In Baghdad, neither the top civil administrator in the Iraqi capital, Paul Bremer, nor an official US military spokesman was able to confirm al-Sahaf's arrest. "I have no confirmation on an arrest. Information about that will come in due course from the military," Bremer told reporters.