Re "Contracts So Complex They Imperil the System" (Feb. 24), which discussed how derivative contracts helped conceal Enron's problems.
Sports Illustrated ran an article earlier this season titled "The Sabanization of College Football, " which discussed how Saban's mode of operating, which he has named "the Process," has been imitated by programs around the country.
Dozens of readers wrote to us with their company's parental leave polices after reading the Your Money column, which discussed how American public and private organizations offer the least generous paid leave policies in the world.
Re "A First Step to Cutting Reliance on Oil" (Economic View, Dec. 15), which discussed how hydrogen-powered vehicles might help free the world from its dependence on oil: But where, exactly, would the hydrogen that powers fuel cells come from?
Re "Just Saying No to Gifts From Drug Makers" (The Right Thing, Aug. 18), which discussed how to monitor pharmaceutical companies' gifts to doctors: Such gifts are the obvious time-tested gambit to promote products or devices.
18), which discussed how corporations are paying to place their names on zoo exhibits, museums, hospitals and other nonprofit endeavors: There is another facet to the corporate underwriting activity at the St . Louis Zoo admission to the zoo is free.
Re "Professionals Play the Stock Manipulation Game, Too," (Market Watch, Sept. 24), which discussed how regulators settled with a 15-year-old boy whom they said had run a pump-and-dump scheme.
Re: "Tough at the Top: Get Your Own Coffee" (Executive Life, Nov. 3), which discussed how the dismissal of administrative assistants has forced executives to assume some clerical tasks: But what about the lost jobs of those assistants?
Re "When Executives Say They Don't Have a Clue" (The Right Thing, Nov. 16), which discussed how executives plead ignorance as a reason for not addressing problems: Ignorance is the most-used excuse for plagiarism in my classrooms.
