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...impose order on prewar planning, Rumsfeld ignored her. Vice President Cheney established a broad and powerful shadow National Security Council early in the Administration and used his close relationship with Bush to drive White House decision making. Yet some foreign diplomats praise her all-business style as the executor of Bush's will, compared with the image-heavy operation of Powell. "When Powell comes, he's got hordes of reporters," says a diplomat. "When Condi comes, she's got no reporters; there are no photo ops. She's there for the kill...
...Bank of America and auditing houses Grant Thornton and Deloitte & Touche also face indictment (they deny wrongdoing). Prosecutors hope to skip the preliminary hearing and obtain rapid convictions in a case that has eroded confidence in Italian industry and finance. Another important delivery arrived last week, as state-appointed executor Enrico Bondi presented his bailout plan. He hopes to sell all noncore businesses and reduce Parmalat's brands from 120 to 30 (concentrating on fruit juices and, of course, milk). Prosecutors in Milan are expected to seek more trials, under normal timetables, against other suspects. T-Mobile's Berry...
...comes to divide the effects, either suggesting a specific method of disbursing them or offering an airtight incentive to work things out amicably. "You can say in your will, 'In case there is any conflict with dividing the personal property, it should be arbitrated by so-and-so'--the executor, for instance. You don't have to get overly complicated, but you do need to try and anticipate how intense things might get," says Denis Clifford, author of Plan Your Estate--Absolutely Everything You Need to Know to Protect Your Loved Ones...
...Hagerty brothers used an informal bid system to divide their mother's possessions. Roy Hagerty, who was executor of the estate, assigned different colored stickers to each brother. "First we went through the house, putting stickers on what we wanted. Anything with two or more stickers on it was bid on, with the winner's price deducted from his portion of the small amount of money we each got from the estate," he says. Although brother Harry didn't score the fringed footstool for his wife and kids, he did go home with his father's old leather chair, some...
...real loss we feel at senseless death and suffering cannot be explained or understood without a God to endow value to we peculiar arrangements of molecules. Nor can our moral outrage gain any traction without a judge and executor to give justification to our preference to live rather than...