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...smell the fish sticks from lunch in Sherron Watkins' 60-year-old house near downtown Houston, see the framed pictures of the family vacation and the baby in bunny ears and even one of her country-crooning second cousin, Lyle Lovett. Things have been so hectic, 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...
...numbers. In the sad tale of Enron's collapse, Watkins is the closest thing to a hero in sight. When she goes out for coffee, strangers stop to give her "attagirls" and ask for her autograph. She still goes to work each day at the company's headquarters in downtown Houston, where the tilted logo out front has yielded Enron a new nickname: the Crooked...
...married Christie Brinkley and had a kid--Alexa. It was the era of the Uptown Girl, Downtown Guy. Becoming a father was a profoundly life-changing experience. That was the single most important moment of my life, when that little girl was born. I grew up with no father; my father was never around. So I swore that I would be there for my child. It's as if there were a fault line, and every seven years I have an earthquake. And each of them has made me steadier on my feet...
...plant a bomb. The narrator describes where U.S. military personnel line up to board a bus after getting out of a subway station. Those two lines reveal the purpose of the video: it was filmed by an al-Qaeda-trained group allegedly to plan a terrorist attack in downtown Singapore...
...numbers. In the sad tale of Enron's collapse, Watkins is the closest thing to a hero in sight. When she goes out for coffee, strangers stop to give her "attagirls" and ask for her autograph. She still goes to work each day at the company's headquarters in downtown Houston, where the tilted logo out front has yielded Enron a new nickname: the Crooked...