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Alsek River Rafting
These photos take you on a river rafting trip down the Alsek River in Alaska, British Columbia, and the Yukon Territory.
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Grenada, Windward Islands
These photographs were taken on a sailing charter from St. Lucia to Grenada and back, in the summer of 2001.
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St. Vincent, Windwards Islands
These photographs were taken on a sailing charter from St. Lucia to Grenada and back, in the summer of 2001.
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St. Lucia, Windward Islands Sailing
These photographs were taken on a sailing charter from St. Lucia to Grenada and back, in the summer of 2001.
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Dubya – May 2001
Bush’s presidency has so far followed the course indicated by study of his past. The only real surprise is the absence of any effort to protect the compassionate image. I always thought it was talk, and now he has forged ahead on his pro-business path without the slightest pass at compassion.
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Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico may be an economic territory of the United States, but its people are fiercely independent. Rarely will you find an American flag flying high, without a corresponding Puerto Rican flag nearby, sometimes flying even higher. The island’s capitol and largest city San Juan is a maze of old and new, with modern shops and restaurants, shanties, a fortress musuem, sky-scrapers and casinos, and shopping malls all standing in conjunction with each other. Maybe more so than any other place in the Caribbean, old mingles with new in Puerto Rico, and the streets of San Juan are just the beginning.
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Enron – January 2001
This chapter was written long before the Enron debacle came to light, in fact it is about the inevitability of Enrons because of wholesale cheating to boost reported earnings. Enron was not the exception, it was the rule. Enron undoubtedly passed the line and broke accounting rules, but the majority of publicly held companies push as close to the line as possible in order to enhance reported earnings. Arthur Anderson, its auditor, is not a rotten apple, all the major accounting firms aid and abet the process of overstating earnings.
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Inauguration Commentary – January 2001
The new president is greeted with glee by comedians, but his presidency may be a watershed event. Bush Jr, to a greater extent than any predecessor, is the man of business. Reagan was all for the free market, but he was an idealist able to believe wacky ideas like voodoo economics and star wars. He never followed through on reducing the size of government. Father Bush, we forget so soon, was seen as an empty man lacking idealism. He was a competent administrator who saw the need for reducing the deficit and lost Republican support by raising taxes. Unfortunately, he had harped on no tax increases to get elected and going back on his word created the impression that Bush senior did not stand for anything.
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To the readers of my notes on George W Bush – November 2000
By the time some of you read this, the game will be over. One of the ideas of my notes was that Bush’s emptiness should have made him an easy opponent, but in the home stretch he seems a sure winner. What happened?
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Puerto Rico
Photographs from the island of Puerto Rico.