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White is survived by his wife Barbara, his two sons Andrew and Gregory, their respective wives Elizabeth and Amie, and his three grandchildren Olivia, Alexander, and Jonathan...
...additional 1,000 accountants, lawyers and economists. No one expects those changes to eliminate corporate fraud entirely. But CEOs may no longer claim, like the old joke about the drunk driver who gets in a car crash, that they were sitting in the backseat. --With reporting by Barbara Kiviat/ New York
Maybe it really was a lightning attack of back spasms that kept Michael Jackson out of court last week. (It's plausible.) Or maybe he just thought the event thus far had been short on melodrama. (It hadn't.) But on Thursday, when he finally appeared in Santa Barbara County Superior Court after the judge in his child-molestation case threatened to revoke his $3 million bail, the deposed King of Pop displayed his usual showmanship, even if not his usual sartorial flair...
Lead prosecutor Tom (Mad Dog) Sneddon, for 22 years district attorney of California's Santa Barbara County, tried to take command of the case early, with forceful but empathic questioning. Legal analysts have scoffed that he is a relative bumpkin next to the slicker, more experienced defense team, but this deeply religious father of nine has a near perfect legal record. And Sneddon knows how to talk to the jury, which may be more comfortable with his small-town style...
...should also point out that Professor Barbara Grosz has been a leader on issues related to women in science for many years, through such efforts as chairing the FAS Standing Committee on the Status of Women in the early 1990s when it produced an important report on the experience of female junior faculty and graduate students in the sciences at Harvard and working on an initiative in the late 1990s chaired by Professors Friend and John Dowling, and including Professors Howard Georgi and Dudley Herschbach, to help facilitate the identification, recruitment, and retention of women science faculty...