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...About the only thing that didn't fail was Sherron Watkins' flair for 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...
...college campuses is a three-foot-high creature with long curly hair on his feet, a passion for six vast meals a day, and the improbable name of Frodo Baggins. And would you believe that Frodo is a hobbit? Hairy feet and all, Frodo Baggins is the reluctant hero of this year's "In" book--a three-volume fantasy called The Lord of the Rings...The hobbit habit seems to be almost as catching as LSD. On many U.S. campuses, buttons declaring FRODO LIVES and GO GO GANDALF--frequently written in Elvish script--are almost as common as football letters...
AFTER RUDY He follows in the footsteps of New York's favorite hero, but newly installed Mayor Michael Bloomberg is hardly basking in the glow. On Jan. 1 he got right down to painful business as usual, asking city officials to cut their staffs 20%, to help balance the budget...
...vague generality under fire, take the typical example, “Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme.” The question is asked, “Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?” Our hero replies by opening his essay with, “David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If these be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative...
...He’s a hero to Jamaican squash,” Patterson said. “The girls love him down there...