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...really returned - and if so, is that a good or bad thing for average investors and the companies themselves? The mergers are widely regarded as one sign of impending economic recovery, but few want them to signal a return to the hysterical days of the late 1990s, when companies eager to create value snapped one another up like shoppers at a discount outlet. Spurred on by investment bankers, consultants and their own hubris, firms used their own inflated stock as currency or took on massive debt to pay cash. It was an easy way to get big quick, to diversify...
...special interrogator had been flown in from the U.S. to take up the matter of Saddam's hidden wealth with the man long regarded as the dictator's financial mastermind. What the American found was a detainee not only willing to talk about his brother's finances but also eager to denounce the regime he had long served...
...independence, one in which brothers fought brothers and fathers fought sons. Some families reconciled after the war. Others, like the Franklins, did not. Although William was imprisoned during the war, his property was confiscated, and his wife Elizabeth died of what her husband called "a broken heart," he was eager to revive his "affectionate Intercourse and Connexion [sic]" with his father at war's end. Benjamin would not hear of reconciliation...
...younger generation of funeral directors is particularly eager to try out fresh ideas. When Tyler Cassity, 33, took over a 64-acre Los Angeles cemetery that is the resting ground of silent-film star Rudolph Valentino and mobster Bugsy Siegel, it had crumbled into disrepair. Now the site, renamed Hollywood Forever, is known for producing short documentaries about the deceased. In the on-site theater mourners can view the film in "kind of a premiere," says Cassity. The films are also made available on the Internet and as DVD keepsakes. "We live in a culture here in L.A. that believes...
...cases like this the symbolism, over time, can shape the substance, and so there were people on both sides eager to rally their supporters by declaring the ruling a watershed. Even if the sodomy laws weren't often enforced, says Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe, who lost the Bowers case and was present in court last week, "the existence of these laws was an excuse for harassment and discrimination, and a labeling of a whole group of people for whom this is the primary form of physical sexual intimacy as deviant and criminal. A lot of people feel that that...