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| | Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | The gang of four |
 | | When Fortune magazine writer Bethany McLean was the first in the US to pen the story "Is Enron over-valued?", asking, "How exactly does it make money?", she was attacked by company executives as an incompetent and dismissed as a "looker" (she was 31, and blonde) who didn't know how to read a balance sheet. |
 | | Former Enron executive Maureen Castaneda received her share of vitriol when she alerted authorities five weeks ago that the company, ordered last October to preserve every document, was still shredding confidential material in January. |
 | | While Enron's executives are subpoenaed to Washington for a tongue- lashing from Congress, Watkins, Lynch, Castaneda and McLean are being amply rewarded for their refusal to kowtow to pressure from the old boys network. |
| www.guardian.co.uk /enron/story/0,11337,652641,00.html (1128 words) |
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