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...When Ken Lay shows up this week to testify before Congress, the disgraced former chairman of Enron should know how to handle a hostile crowd. Even his current employees, after all, are calling for his head. Just a few weeks ago, Enron employees tell TIME, the Houston-based energy-trading company brought in an outside consulting firm to conduct a series of focus groups with some of the remaining workers on how to reinvigorate the sagging firm. One of the first steps, six out of eight people indicated in one session, should...
...Enron employees who filed into a hotel meeting room on Oct. 23 were understandably nervous. Just days before, the energy-trading company had announced a $618 million loss for the third quarter, tied in part to the unraveling of one of its partnerships, and chief executive Ken Lay had called an all-hands meeting to reassure workers about the future. The affable Lay told everyone that if operating earnings were on target, as it appeared they would be, bonuses would be paid. The questions that followed veered toward the trivial--the Christmas party, parking privileges--until one persistent energy trader...
...most anticipated day of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce's Enron hearings since Ken Lay's no-show Monday, lawmakers easily positioned the cloud of blame over Jeff Skilling's relatively full head of executive-style hair. But they couldn't quite make it rain...
Where in the world is Ken Lay? Congress wants to talk to the former Enron CEO, but he doesn't want to talk to Congress, and now even his lawyer can't find Lay. Attempting to force Lay to appear before Congress, the House Financial Services Committee contacted Lay's attorney, Earl Silbert, who said he couldn't accept a subpoena because he didn't know where Lay was. The Senate went ahead anyway, voting Tuesday to subpoena Lay to appear before the Commerce Committee...
...many of her own stunts as the producers will allow (she has been taking martial-arts training since her first audition), staying--according to most reports--as cheerfully poised at 5 a.m. as she was at 3 p.m. "There is something profoundly authentic and genuine about Jennifer," says Ken Olin, who directed six of this season's episodes. "As stylized as the show can be, she's not a vamp. She inhabits this role like a nifty girl from West Virginia, which...