(Of Laurel and Hardy, he writes, "They were constantly involved, sometimes legally, sometimes not, with women named Lois, Mae, Myrtle and Lucille, some of them interchangeable visually, at least to modern eyes").
The Powers Report says the two worked on a number of deals involving LJM, sometimes with Mr. Fastow negotiating for LJM and Mr. Causey for Enron.
But he accepts that it can be "extraordinarily difficult [for firms] when numerous governments are involved, with sometimes competing interests".
The list of good-government and good-journalism Web sites Mr. Newmark is involved with — sometimes financially, but more often as adviser and advocate in the Silicon Valley world — speak for themselves: factcheck.org, sunlightfoundation.com, PRWatch.org, NewsTrust.net, publicintegrity.org.org
If a potential mate has a high amount of debt or a terrible credit rating from bad financial decisions, those factors can directly impact the person they are involved with, sometimes for the rest of their lives.
The inherent variability of the case mix (specialties, interventions), and also even of each precise type (the particularities and the characteristics of each patient), and the fact that many different actors are involved with sometimes conflicting interests are all trying to achieve different objectives.
With "wildly successful shows," says Landis, "people get involved.... .. Sometimes, this involvement extends to their closets.
For the most part, the vaunted Vienna locations may as well be rear-screen projections — sometimes because the actors aren't physically involved with them, sometimes because, when they are physically involved, the camera's position is centered on the actors, front and center, catching what they're throwing rather than seeing what they're doing.
The most popular movie this week, "Skyfall," is a load of fun; but every emotional climax involves a shooting, sometimes with small guns sometimes with large ones.
Even when he was involved, he sometimes seemed to be struggling with policy details.
