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...Herbert, 72, the battle marks a brutal climax to a career that has left behind a trail of business enemies. He fought with his brother-in-law, who charged in a lawsuit that Haft had cheated him out of investments in the family's drugstore chain. When Haft's brother Leonard sided with the brother- in-law, Herbert broke off relations with Leonard for 15 years. Herbert made frequent use of his toughness in the 1980s, when he and Robert mounted campaigns to take over such retailing giants as Dayton Hudson and Safeway Foods. While the Hafts never purchased those...
...prosecutors, cash was emptied from the registers into a "money room," where it was counted, placed in bags and dropped down a chute into the "vault room." Most of the unreported loot was lugged to the Caribbean, where Leonard owns a second home. Another executive, Leonard's brother-in-law, kept $484,000 stashed behind a false panel in his basement. Meanwhile, the computer program itself was hidden in a hollowed-out copy of the 1982 Business Directory of New England...
Again, this strip isn't about being gay. It's about dealing with people who come out of the closet, and Johnston knows about that. Eleven years ago, Johnston's brother-in-law revealed to her and her family that he is gay. We can expect that "For Better or For Worse" will treat this plot line in the educated manner we have come to expect from...
...murder the mother of her daughter's cheerleading rival, Holly Hunter is like a clenched tornado. She talks so fast the words barely make it out of her mouth; expressions flash on and off her face in milliseconds. Plotting the crime with her former brother-in-law (who turned her in to the police before it could be carried out), she keeps bursting into giggling shrieks, a schoolgirl titillated by the brazenness of her own amorality. A control freak to the end, she demands instructions from the detectives arresting her on what to wear to jail. "God," one of them...
...made of the dismissal by a Los Angeles federal judge of charges against Dr. Humberto Alvarez Machain in the 1985 torture-murder of D.E.A. agent Enrique Camarena. But the prosecution did not come away completely empty-handed. Alvarez's co-defendant, Ruben Zuno Arce, a Mexican businessman and brother-in-law of former Mexican President Luis Echeverria, was convicted in the same court. According to the jury, Zuno helped plan Camarena's kidnapping and was present while he was tortured. He could receive life...