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...summer. Vice chairman Clifford Baxter--who committed suicide late last month--resigned in May after voicing concerns about accounting practices to Lay's top deputy, Jeffrey Skilling. The whistle-blowing memo by Enron vice president Sherron Watkins was sent to Lay on Aug. 15. Another warning memo, from employee Margaret Ceconi, made its way to Lay soon after. Nonetheless, Lay in September was telling employees to buy more stock and bet on Enron's future...
...epitomized the poor little rich girl. The younger sister of the Queen seemed to have everything: wealth, beauty, wit, freedom from too onerous a royal workload, the zest to pursue a glamorous, sometimes controversial lifestyle in the most rarefied echelons of society. Yet the lasting memory of Princess Margaret will probably be that of a sad figure who was unlucky in love and who never really found a fulfilling role in life or a lasting marital relationship...
...Margaret Rose died on Saturday at the age of 71 after suffering a stroke - suspected to be her fourth in four years - that led to cardiac complications. In the early hours of the morning she was whisked from her home in London's Kensington Palace to King Edward VII Hospital. A few hours later, at 6:30 a.m., she died "peacefully in her sleep," according to a Buckingham Palace statement. Her two much-loved children, Viscount Linley and Lady Sarah Chatto, were at her bedside. As the Union flag flew at half - mast over Buckingham Palace for the first time...
...Princess' death came as something of a shock - in fact, it was her 101-year-old mother, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, whose ill health had been the focus of public concern for months. Yet Margaret too had been unwell. When last seen in public, just before Christmas, she was confined to a wheelchair, her face disfiguringly puffy - apparently from medication - and shrouded by enormous dark glasses. With both her left side and her eyesight seriously affected by strokes, Margaret was a frail, spectral figure - in poignant contrast to the vibrant young woman who once rewrote the book on proper...
Perhaps the greatest public sympathy Margaret ever evoked was in response to her legendary lost romance, from which, it is said, she never really recovered. In 1953 she fell in love with Group Captain Peter Townsend, a much - decorated pilot in the Battle of Britain. He was 16 years her senior and - worse yet in the staid 1950s - divorced, and thus unacceptable to the political Establishment and the Church of England. Sad at her sister's unhappiness, Queen Elizabeth asked Margaret to wait a couple of years. She did, and could have married Townsend at the age of 25 without...