The Enron story has given a push to campaign finance reform; perhaps "John Q." can do the same for universal health coverage.

The Enron story demonstrated many common features of failed tone at the top, including inappropriate hostility to critics and a misunderstanding of public expectations.

For Eichenwald the Enron story is an affirmation of the free market because the company was in the end driven under by its bad business decisions.

The existence of the huge reserves adds a strange twist to the Enron story.

For other students, the Enron story is business as usual.

The great risk now is that this will be treated purely as an Enron story.

The Enron story shows just how easy it is for companies to cover their tracks, especially when the regulators are in their corner.

When the original Enron story was developing, Bush's people referred to the crimes as violations.

The Enron story has brought into sharp focus the links between politics, business and campaign money.

But more than that, the magnitude of the Enron story reflects a realization, by official Washington, that we've become a nation of investors.