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...before she gave the first of two damning testimonials to Congress, Enron vice president Sherron Watkins spent the afternoon in a cluttered conference room in the Rayburn House building on Capitol Hill. It was a cram session of sorts, a final chance for Watkins, her attorney and congressional staff members to review the dozens of subpoenaed documents she would be quizzed on the next morning. As they ate cold pizza, someone drew her attention to an e-mail titled "Confidential Employee Matter" that had been written by one of Enron's external lawyers. "Per your request," it began, "the following...
...Watkins rose quickly through the ranks and was thought of as whip smart, she earned an equally well-deserved reputation for lack of tact. Poised and pleasant with clients, Watkins often barreled right through her colleagues. They nicknamed her the "Buzz Saw." One boss pulled her aside and said, "Sherron, you kind of cut people off at the jugular. There they are bleeding at the neck, and then you decide it was rude, but it's too late, you can't stop the blood flow...
When her name was leaked in early January, Watkins initially felt a rush. "People were high-fiving. They were pumped and said, 'Attagirl,'" she recalls. She signed autographs in Starbucks; her husband Rick jokingly referred to himself as "Mr. Sherron Watkins." Their daughter Marion, 2, ran around the living room squealing, "Mommy's on the news again." One morning a maintenance crew arrived to move her back up to an executive office...
...Saturday morning in December, TIME brought Coleen Rowley of the FBI, Cynthia Cooper of WorldCom and Sherron Watkins of Enron together to talk, for the first time, about their parallel experiences over the past year. The women had never met before, but over breakfast they compared stories and marveled at the similarities: their motivations for exposing the flaws of their institutions, their shock at having their secret actions exposed and then condemned in some quarters, and their enduring love for the ideals of their workplaces. They also discovered they shared much in their personal lives, and they enjoyed cheering...
STEPPING DOWN. SHERRON WATKINS, 43, Enron vice president who blew the whistle on the company's accounting problems before it collapsed; to start a consulting company focused on corporate-compliance issues; in Houston...