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...Watkins apologizes, that the Christmas ornaments haven't been put away yet. The daughter of two educators, Watkins grew up in nearby Tomball, where she worked the cash register at the family grocery store and began saving her money. By 1982, she'd picked up two accounting degrees in Austin and quickly found a job with Arthur Andersen. She eventually landed a job with Enron, Houston's red-hot energy trading firm, rising in eight years to vice president for corporate development. Her quick ascent surprised no one, says her husband Rick: "She always had a flair for numbers...
...Reed's Enron work had people who know about the finances of fledgling presidential campaigns clucking. A powerful force among Christian conservatives in the late 1990s, Reed was hired by Enron to bang the drum for energy deregulation in Pennsylvania at a time when the Bush team in Austin would have appreciated a low-cost, low-profile way of keeping Reed on their side, off their payroll and yet far from the crowd gathering around Steve Forbes and other conservative rivals. If Rove gave Enron a nudge about Reed--"Karl Rove gave Ralph Reed a good recommendation," said press secretary...
...Austin, has two children. I didn't realize it's a terrible thing to do to a child, to make a celebrity of her. People would say, "Oh, you're the Nina!" She doesn't get that in Texas. But after a few years, she realized that it was just affection. And it was impossible to stop it by then...
...Watkins apologizes, that the Christmas ornaments haven't been put away yet. The daughter of two educators, Watkins grew up in nearby Tomball, where she worked the cash register at the family grocery store and began saving her money. By 1982, she'd picked up two accounting degrees in Austin and quickly found a job with Arthur Andersen. She eventually landed a job with Enron, Houston's red-hot energy trading firm, rising in eight years to vice president for corporate development. Her quick ascent surprised no one, says her husband Rick: "She always had a flair for numbers...
...Melinda Harmon, the Houston jurist whose most recently famous for her July decision to imprison crime writer Vanessa Leggett when she refused to turn over notes to the feds in a Houston murder case. Harmon, a Radcliffe grad who got her law degree at the University of Texas at Austin, had Leggett imprisoned for more than five months without bail. The writer got out of jail only this month...