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...financial officer Andrew] Fastow, who charged her with finding some assets to sell off. But everywhere she looked she found the same thing: fuzzy off-the-books arrangements that seemed to be backed by nothing more than now deflated Enron stock. No one she asked could?or cared to?explain what was really going on. Knowing that others had got into trouble after challenging Skilling, who by then was CEO of the entire company, Watkins began scouting for a new job ... But on Aug. 14, Skilling abruptly quit, and Lay invited employees to put any concerns in a comment...
...actuarial trainee and worked as a guitar instructor before his “kudalini experience,” or life-changing experience, at age 26.He became inexplicably ill, losing 65 pounds and experienced constant diarrhea over the course of a year and a half. Doctors were unable to explain what was going on, and Pacelli was unsure what to do.“I didn’t know what the heck was going on,” Pacelli says. “It was both frightening and blissful at the same time.”The illness acted...
...their evolution, from their feud with Sony (ungrateful!) to the bluegrass album, Home (not country enough!), and then, of course, the Incident, the genre's wrath hovered like a jealous boyfriend. "Their old audience feels a little betrayed, a little left behind maybe," says CMT's Philips. That may explain why, as the Chicks and country began their breakup, country fans ran into the arms of brilliant redneck instigator Toby Keith, who displayed a doctored photo of Maines and Saddam Hussein at his concerts...
...generally favorable impression of military medicine. But from my end of the gurney, I had little idea about what was happening around me. HBO's spotlight on the 68th Combat Support Hospital fully assays the skill, bravery and humanity of my caregivers, and goes a long way to explain why the survival rate among U.S. combat casualties has reached an historic peak in the Iraq conflict...
...been given positions. The rest were offered interviews or rejected. Among other factors, these decisions were made based on recommendations of members of the SAB.Accepting new PAFs without an interview was a mistake. Brooks B. Lambert-Sluder ’05, project coordinator of the Peer Advising Program, explained that the selection team was confident in the ability of PAFs it accepted early, based on the combined recommendations of deans and SAB members and on their applications. Although the time and the volume of applications put unexpected pressure on process, he said he was uncertain that there was ever...