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 the most innovative company in America four years in a row, as judged by envious corporate peers in the annual Fortune magazine poll." Enron was an energy company that didn't so much produce or distribute energy as it did buy and sell positions on the price of energy stocks -- derivatives. [...]