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...paper, Miniscribe certainly looked like a highflyer. The Colorado-based company's financial statements in the mid-1980s painted it as a vigorous, healthy computer-parts maker with a bright future. But an internal investigation drew quite a different picture. The probe uncovered massive fraud by senior managers, who shipped boxes of bricks labeled as disk drives and counted them as sales. Investigators blamed executives for the company's cooked books, but bondholders also sued Miniscribe's auditors, Coopers & Lybrand, for conducting faulty audits. In February a jury stunned the accounting profession by ordering C&L to pay damages...
...next time you open a can of Coors Light Beer, it just may start talking to you. On May 4 the Colorado brewery will begin slipping more than 30,000 "talking" beer cans into 12-packs of Coors Light and other Coors brews. Filled with carbonated water, the lucky cans look and feel the same as those that contain beer. But pull the tab, and a light-activated voice mechanism will proclaim you the winner of one of more than 40,000 prizes -- ranging from CDs to surround-sound audio systems -- valued at almost $1 million...
Dartmouth has padded its record thus far with a leisurely trip out West to play less competitive Colorado squads, then returned to defeat Division III Middlebury...
Harvard was supposed to be its first challenge of the year, but Colorado College took the Big Green to overtime...
Successful male spouses, on the other hand, often get the benefit of the doubt, though there are exceptions to the rule. James Schroeder, whose wife Pat, a Colorado Congresswoman, once ran for President, says his legal career has not suffered and he has never been accused of a conflict of interest. But investment banker Richard Blum, husband of former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, says his firm was hampered because he turned down some clients to avoid the appearance of impropriety. "Could I have done better if my wife was home baking cookies?" asks Blum. "I think so." Another Californian...