Day October 9, 2002

Bush Declares War on Labor Bush is officially seeking a Taft-Hartley injunction in the dockworker lockout. Update: It turns out that Bush’s own mediator had negotiated a 30-day extension of the union contract, which the ILWU had agreed to. Management…

Harvard Bailed Out Bush’s Energy Firm. “Newly unearthed documents show that when the energy firm that helped make Bush a multimillionaire teetered on the brink of bankruptcy in 1990, Harvard University, headed by a Bush political supporter, charged to the…

After long drought, Bill Simon shoots self in foot again Simon’s credibility sinks as fund-raising exposé on Davis collapsesThat gurgling sound you heard Tuesday was Bill Simon’s political credibility going down the toilet, along with his big exposé on Gov.…

Toilet improvements: flush with success Japan’s toilet wars started in February, when Matsushita engineers here unveiled a toilet seat equipped with electrodes that send a mild electric charge through the user’s buttocks, yielding a digital measurement of body-fat ratio. <Whoa,…