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...Bean Counter...
Good Day. That’s what Guttentag means in German and that’s what is embroidered in neat block letters on Lisa Guttentag’s blue L.L. Bean backpack. It’s unclear if it’s an affirmation or a command. But either way, Guttentag is having a good day and wants everyone else to have one, too. She’s not really supposed to be here right now. At least, on June 12, 2000, when her van was hit by a tractor trailer, no one thought she would be here...
...worried after she told me she was ‘trizzashed,’ whatever that means,” said one College administrator. “I also wondered why she left five messages on my emergency cell phone announcing that Jose Cuervo, Jack Daniels, Jim Bean and Tanqueray No. 10 would be our biggest donors. I haven’t met those particular seniors, but she seemed to know them pretty darn well.” Filney was later spotted cashing checks made out to the College Fund at Central Square’s Supreme Liquors...
...World Congress of Accountants is a summit where 5,000 bean counters meet to discuss the industry's searing issues, like solar vs. battery-powered calculators or the long-awaited switch to No. 3 pencils. Usually it would be the dullest four days this side of, well, a meeting with 5,001 accountants, but thanks to the bookkeeping debacles at kleptocorporations like Enron, once-ignored accountants are suddenly the mysterious bad boys of the corporate world. This year's congress was the perfect chance for the tarnished industry to pick itself up, dust itself off and blame Kenneth...
...born to a pair of brilliant astrophysicists gets lost in the woods. Raised by a pack of wild dogs, he finds his way back to civilization years later and goes on to graduate with honors from M.I.T. But a year after that, he gets killed chasing a car. ORSON BEAN Venice, Calif...