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...criminal charges have been filed in connection with the slush-fund scandal against either von Pierer, whose tenure as CEO stretched from 1992 to 2005, or Kleinfeld, who became CEO in 2005 and resigned under pressure in April 2007 as the bribery investigation widened. Both men maintain their innocence. Nevertheless, the supervisory board is seeking compensation for damages to the company, which it claims resulted as a failure of the executives to carry out their oversight responsibilities...
...April his book, The Last Lecture, swooped high on the best-seller list; his wife called it a "manual" for their family...
...April 1966, TIME posed a simple question on a now famous cover: "Is God Dead?". That question remains a rich and perennial subject of dialogue - partly, no doubt, because the current Pope is keen to engage with those who answer it in the affirmative. With reporting by Francesco Peloso/Rome
...Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) had basked in victory after the Texas Supreme Court ordered the return of the children taken from its ranch in Eldorado in April. But the state's attorney general Greg Abbott pledged to prosecute FLDS members to the full extent of the law. And this week, after going through evidence taken from the Yearning for Zion Ranch, Abbott indicted Warren Jeffs - the "Prophet" of the polygamists - along with four of his followers on charges of first-degree felony sexual assault of a minor. (The four men were not named, and law-enforcement officials...
...raised about his past. "They thought they were safe behind those walls and that Texas would never mess with them," says Randy Mankin, the editor of the Eldorado Success, the small-town newspaper that has chronicled events at the nearby FLDS ranch from the compound's founding through the April 2008 raid by Texas officials that swept up more than 400 children...