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...season in which he placed third in the final standings, the best American showing in 18 years. Schlopy (pronounced Shlope-y) also heads to Salt Lake City this February with the kind of prodigal-son story that NBC will make into a 30-min. mini-series preceding his 50-sec. runs on the slalom course at Park City. "What I went through," says Schlopy, "isn't just nontraditional. It's never been done before...
...health-care products firm based in Norcross, Ga., the idea to tell customers by e-mail that the company's catalog was in the mail. Result: a 20% increase in sales. More e-mail ads now contain songs or video clips, such as the messages, with a 30-sec. trailer, promoting the Kevin Costner film Thirteen Days. If you have a microphone and speakers on your computer, clicking on links in some e-mail messages will connect you to a call center where sales reps can answer your questions live...
...Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has stepped in to investigate the company along with Congress, and dozens of lawsuits from investors have been filed against the company and members of its executive board...
Winokur is on an Enron committee in charge of all internal investigations at the company, including dealings with the SEC...
...With the SEC, the Justice Department and various congressional committees now scrutinizing Andersen's audit work on Enron, there is little doubt efforts will be made to rein in the industry. "The profession has always done just enough to get out of a hole," says industry analyst Arthur Bowman. The SEC and Congress are looking into Andersen's interpretation of accounting rules that allowed Enron to exclude losses at several partnerships from its balance sheets. But the larger issue will be the objectivity of the entire industry. Enron paid Andersen $25 million for its audit last year and $27 million...