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...trial lawyer, Reid Weingarten, there was no smoking gun, no hard evidence to implicate the former chief of WorldCom--a college dropout, Sunday-school teacher and small-town basketball coach--as the orchestrator of the largest accounting fraud in U.S. history. "You thought you could trust him," says Alex Bryant, an ex--WorldCom sales manager in Springfield, Mo. Soon after WorldCom bought MCI, Bryant recalls, Ebbers addressed a group of employees and urged them to hang on to their company stock. "He was a great motivator, a great speaker," says Bryant. Ebbers also was desperate to keep WorldCom's share...
...stories, and Frank is full of them, are so ludicrous that you periodically question them. In the end, they are real because Philadelphia makes them possible. The City of Brotherly Love has produced NBA notables like two-time All-Star Rasheed Wallace (Simon Gratz High School) and Kobe Bryant (Lower Marion...
...Europe and parts of North America, certainly, they think it's very odd that we don't involve children more directly." Bryant doesn't envisage children testifying in Family Court cases, but a change of policy allowing the older ones to speak directly to the judge in private is likely to happen soon...
...Family Court is wondering whether it has protected kids a little too much. "We are hearing that children - some children, at least - do want a greater involvement in the process," says Chief Justice Diana Bryant. "We're starting to understand that although we do take into account children's wishes, children themselves don't always understand that...
...shared parenting (where the parent not living with the children looks after them at least 30% of the time) is an arrangement seldom imposed by the Family Court: judges ordered it in only 2.5% of cases in 2000-01, down from 5.1% in 1994-95. While Chief Justice Diana Bryant argues that shared care is a more likely outcome of the simpler cases, which tend to be determined in the Federal Magistrates Court, it happens most often when parents agree between themselves to try it. Recent research by the Australian Institute of Family Studies suggests that some 6% of separated...