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...headquarters is gone, sold at auction. At its offices, a pared-down staff administers old contracts and remaining assets like gas pipelines and power plants. It's nothing like the days when secretaries received gifts of Waterford crystal and executives jetted to luxury resorts to party. Enron's Christmas bash this year: an afternoon gathering in the lobby with coffee, cookies and music by an employee choir...
...Thurmond is an old man who is leaving office not a minute too soon, but at least no politician could get away with the same racist views today. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott to the rescue. At Thurmond’s birthday bash last week, Lott voiced his pride that his home state of Mississippi had voted for Thurmond back in 1948. “And,” he continued, “if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years, either...
Soberon organized his first big fiesta, a 3,000-person bash in Mexico City, as a teen. Now 42 and the founder and CEO of Corporacion Interamericana de Entre-tenimiento (CIE), the largest live-entertainment company in Latin America, Soberon will thrill a larger audience: Grupo Televisa has paid $107 million for a 40% stake in a CIE subsidiary and will broadcast the company's concerts and sporting events throughout Mexico...
...passion for the quality of accounts and their audit; for taxation, for information systems, for management controls and systems." I liked Ricol, whose public speaking style is reminiscent of the electrifying Jean Chr?tien, who is not an accountant but is Canadian. When I gave Ricol the chance to bash greedy Americans for besmirching accounting, he demurred. "And I'm French," he added. "We know the French always enjoy to criticize the Americans." His bonhomie was revolutionary; he was a veritable Lafayette of the ledgers. But his big idea was to replace the industry's key word of "independence" with "integrity...
...first party Lumbard and Say attended was in December, he told The Court in a second appearance. He said “faggots” from a club called the Golden Rooster were present at the bash, referred to as a “bitch party.” There was dancing, dressing in women’s clothes and “some kissing witnessed.” Lumbard said he did not drink, but that he danced once, before leaving at about 1:30 a.m. Several times afterward, Lumbard dropped by the parties in Perkins...