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Corporate Raiders In the latest twist in the Vivendi saga, French investigators launched a probe nto the indebted media company's accounts, seizing documents from its headquarters...
...twist, Stewart's syndicated TV show on Thursday aired a rerun of an April 2000 episode featuring Stewart cooking gumbo with Representative Billy Tauzin, the Louisiana Republican who, with G.O.P. Representative James Greenwood of Pennsylvania, is leading the committee investigating her. Stewart's office called Tauzin to be sure he knew the show was running. Stewart said the airing was "a matter of course." Her spokesperson said notifying Tauzin was "routine." It's the only thing about this saga that...
...others? An answer came last Saturday, when a Houston jury found Andersen guilty of obstructing justice. It provided a moment of vindication for investors who lost more than $60 billion in the spectacular collapse of Enron, whose books had been audited by Andersen. But the verdict held a twist: at first the case seemed to hinge on whether an Andersen employee ordered tons of Enron paperwork to be shredded before investigators arrived. Jurors said they based their decision instead on Andersen's alteration of an internal memo that was critical of an Enron earnings release...
...bright, engaging bauble with half a dozen Elvis Presley songs for Mom and Dad, and just enough sass--Stitch sticks his tongue into his nose and eats his snot--to keep the tweeners giggling. Lilo (voiced by Daveigh Chase) gives the usual lonely-but-superior Disney heroine a twist: she is a brat who has anger issues. And far from trying to save China or morph from mermaid to human, this Hawaiian handful has no goal loftier than the status quo--to keep living with her frazzled sister Nani (Tia Carrere...
...works: With a "wide range" of fiction and nonfiction, Today's "twist," says a spokesperson, is to have a best-selling author choose a book from a lesser-known writer each month. The show announces its first selection this week...