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...energy, water, weather derivatives, broadband capacity and anything else that could be turned into a commodity. The strategy spawned explosive growth. By 2000, Enron was the seventh largest company in America. The '90s were fat times for Enron, and the corporate culture oozed in excess. The company rented ski condos in Beaver Creek, Colo., and stocked each with a personal chef. Christmas parties were multimillion-dollar, black-tie affairs with ice sculptures...
...writer of oddly humorous experimental plays, played to type by reading aloud from Martha Stewart’s personal monthly calendar, as printed in Martha Stewart Living. Martha won’t be available for holiday parties on Sunday, Dec. 22, as she intends to cross-country ski, “if there is snow.” Ryuji Yamaguchi, dancer extraordinaire, treated the crowd to an exposition of physical strength and agility. Yamaguchi balanced a chair on his face and then juggled apples, eating them as an encore...
...home. Certainly those folks with a history of heart disease or heart attack are good candidates. And then there are people like Lee Curtes, 57, a businessman from Hartford, Wis., who had no idea there was anything wrong with his heart until he collapsed on a ski slope three years ago. An AED operated by the ski patrol helped save his life. Since then, Curtes has kept one in his car, hoping someday to help another heart in need...
Gephart saw his hard work come to fruition last Friday night when the Boston premiere of Soul Slide entertained a crowd of about 100 people. Held in trendy Atlas bar at the bottom of Jillian’s, the atmosphere was more final club than ski lodge. Guests perched on velvet-sided barstools under subtle lighting as Top 40 pop music played in the background. Numerous televisions hung from the ceiling and three huge screens behind the bar showed the film, which combined sweeping shots of traditional freeheel skiing interspersed with footage of daredevil stunts...
Since returning from California, Gephart has continued to work with Unparalleled. He is currently organizing premieres of Soul Slide all across the Northeast, in addition to helping edit an instructional ski film the company is producing. If all goes according to plan, Unparalleled will have enough money to hire him this summer or next year. Regardless, Gephart says, “I’m going to do this one way or another after I graduate. It’s something I have a passion...