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...Coming The question at the heart of the fraud trial of Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeffrey Skilling involves the men's awareness of Enron's accounting and financial manipulations?a minefield that Sherron Watkins, one of TIME's 2003 Persons of the Year, recognized long before the company collapsed...
...volumes in Philadelphia and Saving Private Ryan but just registers as numb here. The villains fare a bit better. Bettany gets some poignance out of his role as self-flagellator and avenging devil, and Alfred Molina, as an Opus Dei poobah, plays liturgical corruption as if he were an Enron exec in robes. McKellen, a pro's pro, lends suavity and power to the Leigh Teabing role (a character Brown named for two of the authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail). Yet when he delivers the film's dead-serious climactic line - "You're the last living descendant of Jesus...
...reinvention whatsoever tried to pass them off as her own. Yes, I acknowledge that we live in a super-competitive age, but there are limits to everything. Let’s not forget the new robber barons that have been sentenced and put away for stealing millions from Enron, WorldCom, and other corporations. Great authors make allusions. Ms. Austen did not lift the very language of Anne Radcliffe’s “Mysteries of Udolpho” to write her “Northanger Abbey.” She made allusions to that text and to its gothic...
KENNETH LAY, former Enron chief executive, testifying at his trial on charges of conspiring to defraud investors...
...even during questioning by his own lawyer, Lay appeared to avoid answering some questions directly, saying only what he wanted to say, when he wanted to say it. "Ken Lay wants you to believe he relied on his lawyers while at Enron, but he's not relying on them at trial," says Houston attorney Joel Androphy, author of a the textbook White Collar Crime. Lay's lead attorney, Mike Ramsey, has not returned to the courtroom after heart surgery. While his team of three attorneys, along with Lay's daughter Elizabeth Vittor, have been in charge since, Lay appears...