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After ascending to the chief executive job in early 2001 , Skilling was increasingly isolated from the opportunistic , hard-charging executives he called friends during his rise to power.His best friend , former Enron dealmaker J. Clifford Baxter , committed suicide in early 2002 as the criminal investigation widened . " The fact that I 'm meeting with him is a very good step , " Katz said.Gaithersburg officials backed out of a location negotiated last year with former executive Douglas M. Duncan ( D ) because of community opposition . Arable land is intensively cultivated ; farmers use irrigation , terracing , and multiple cropping to coax rich crops from the overworked soil . North Korea , although nominally a republic governed by a representative assembly , is actually ruled by the Communist party ( known in Korea as the Korea Workers ' party ) . " I 'm the PR , " says Yildirim , and the PR goes two ways : At once , he is trying to redeem the name of the police department to Muslims and the reputation of Islam to police officers.Of course , the misunderstandings may also go every which way , even for Yildirim , a funeral director by trade who may or may not have become conversant in cop talk but who also does n't speak the languages of the majority of immigrant Muslims in New York.Arabs and South Asians form the largest immigrant groups among the city 's 600,000 Muslims , according to a Columbia University study - - and Yildirim , born in Germany to Turkish parents and educated at an Islamic high school in Istanbul - - knows only prayers and hellos in Arabic and no Urdu at all.He says that 's no problem - - " For Muslim culture you know everything about them because you believe in the same faith . It means that I 'm not there to make a judgment based on my personal policy preferences or my political preferences . " The White House was a very efficient operation , and I 'm sure if I was n't there , they 'd just go down the list and take whoever was next . Other climate experts , including NASA 's James Hansen , predict sea level rise that can be measured by feet more than inches.The report is also expected to include some kind of proviso that says things could be much worse if ice sheets continue to melt.The prediction being considered this week by the IPCC is " obviously not the full story because ice sheet decay is something we cannot model right now , but we know it 's happening , " said Stefan Rahmstorf , a climate panel lead author from Germany who made the larger prediction of up to 55 inches of sea level rise .