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Because with their Enron auditing and consulting, Andersen took it to the next level. If there were a company to risk it all for, it was Enron, once described by the New York Times as "a new-economy company, a thinking-outside-the-box, paradigm-shifting, market-making company ... [one] ranked as th…

Jennifer's Mercedes is back in the shop-caliper problems. That's only one of today's Media Team revelations. The other? Her husband has a penchant for difficult-to-obtain dog breeds, and they imported a Rhodesian Ridgeback from South Africa. But they worry they got a dud. The beast fears precipitat…

She had a book about him lying around, and I picked it up out of curiosity, wanting to know more about the master of unstructured structure. Quite the eccentric. Lived in a one-room apartment in the southern suburbs of Paris for most of his life. Wore the same grey flannel suit every day. Saved his…

The weekend her father left – left the house, the town, the country, everything, packing so lightly I believed he would come back – he had said, ‘You can raise Nickie by yourself. You’ll be good at it.’

And I had said, ‘Are you on crack?’

And he had replied, continuing to fold a blue twill ja…

And then everything righted itself again. It felt important spiritually to go to weddings: to give balance to the wakes and memorial services. People shouldn’t have been set in motion on this planet only to grieve losses. And without weddings there were only funerals. I had seen a soccer mom become…