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THE BATTALION
. Tough decision
Alissa HOLLIMON • THE BATTALION
Freshman business major Barrett Lesher debates about which bear to buy for his girlfriend
for Valentine's Day.
Enron
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leader Tom Daschle called the report “a call to
action and we will act.”
Democrats have pushed legislation to deny tax
benefits on sham transactions, but the Bush
administration “has continued to oppose it even
after the collapse of Enron,” said Daschle, D-S.D.
“I call on the administration to stand up for hon
est taxpayers instead of continuing to resist efforts
to crack down on corporate tax shelters.”
Big accounting firms, investment banks and
law firms — including Bankers Trust, Chase
Manhattan, Deloitte & Touche and fallen Arthur
Andersen — that gave Enron tax advice pushing
legal boundaries did not escape blame from sena
tors and congressional investigators.
The outside advisers, who received some $88
million in fees from Enron, colluded, said Sen.
Max Baucus of Montana, the Finance Committee’s
senior Democrat. “Enron and its advisers con
spired to mine the tax code for tax schemes. ...
They ensured that no one — particularly the IRS
— would ever discover what they were up to.”
Enron’s failure in late 2001 destroyed the retire
ment savings of thousands of employees and hurt
individual investors and pension funds nationwide,
The joint taxation committee’s inquiry was among
more than a dozen congressional investigations last
year into Enron’s collapse.
The Houston-based company paid no federal
income tax at all from 1996 through l999,Jf)3,2
million in 2000 and nothing again in 2001.
Enron's tax deals “pushed the concept ofte
ness purpose to the limit (and perhaps beyond
the panel’s report says. “Enron’s behavior illus
trates that a motivated corporation can manipulate
highly technical provisions of the law.” By using
advice from sophisticated lawyers, investment
bankers and accountants, “corporations like
Enron have an inherent advantage over the IRS,
it says.
Lindy Pauli, the joint panel’s chief of staff,
stopped short of saying Enron violated the tax
laws, telling senators that Enron gained “inappro
priate benefits” from its use of the schemes. “This
result should not happen under the tax code,” she
testified.
Shuttle
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wing indicated that super-hot
plasma had penetrated the shuttle.
“I think there was a substan
tial hole in the wing,” said
Steven P. Schneider, an associ
ate professor at Purdue
University’s Aerospace Sciences
Laboratory. “That would not be
at all surprising. All the sensors
in the wing failed or gave bad
readings” by the time ground
controllers lost contact with
Columbia, he said.
The board dismissed sugges
tions Columbia’s left landing
gear was improperly lowered as
it raced through Earth’s atmos
phere at more than 12,000 miles
per hour. NASA disclosed earli
er Thursday that a sensor indi
cated the gear was down just 26
seconds before Columbia’s
destruction.
If Columbia’s gear was low
ered at that speed — and in those
searing temperatures as the shut
tle descended over Texas from
about 40 miles up — the heat and
rushing air would have sheared
off Columbia’s tires and led
quickly to the spacecraft’s tum
bling destruction, experts said.
Officials said they were confi
dent that unusual sensor reading
was wrong. Tires are supposed to
remain raised until the shuttle is
about 200 feet over the runway
and flying 345 miles per hour.
Two other sensors in the
same wheel compartment indi
cated the gear was still properly
raised, they said.
While Columbia’s piloting
computers began almost simul
taneously firing thrusters strug
gling to keep wings level, offi
cials said, a mysterious disrup
tion in the air flowing near the
left wing was not serious
enough to suggest the shuttle’s
gear might be down.
The investigating board con
cluded that its research “does not
support the scenario of an early
deployment of the left gear.”
NASA also confirmed that
searchers near Hemphill, Texas,
about 140 miles northeast of
Houston, recovered what is
believed to be one of
Columbia’s radial tires. A
spokesman was not immediate
ly sure which of the shuttle's
tires was found.
The tire was blackened and
sustained a massive split across
its tread, but it was impossible to
know whether the tire was dam
aged aboard Columbia or when
it struck the ground.
The board’s announcement
came one day after NASA
released e-mails showing midlev
el safety engineers in Virginiaand
Houston considered the risks of
tires bursting inside Columbia’s
belly from heat damage.
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