The point of my games - which are actually research programs for enterprising journalists - is that all the scandals now surfacing are linked.

Here are a couple of loose ends left after the Iran-contra hearings that a committee report, a special prosecutor or enterprising journalist may clear up: 1.

These cases of corruption were not exposed by an enterprising journalist.

Many of their names were already in the public record for any enterprising journalist who went looking for them.

Fanning sees it as a prototype for the future, and a place to build a community of enterprising journalists.

With no power or water or even shelter safe enough for vagrants, the area now hosted only an enterprising journalist and a national hero.

(One enterprising English journalist rented horses for himself and his daughters to investigate the estate and interview the groom.)

If some enterprising journalist wants to test the low-wage way of fife in darkest Idaho or Louisiana, more power to her.

She may know horses, but enterprising journalists would do better than she.

But there rarely is a clear story-at least, not until afterward, when some enterprising journalist or investigative committee decides to write one.