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...into a retailing conglomerate. With $1.2 billion in sales today and about 600 outlets in seven states, the Hafts' Dart Group, which includes Crown Books and Trak Auto stores, has kept the family in Range Rovers and Florida and California mansions and at charity balls. But now a family feud of operatic dimensions has erupted, threatening to undo all that the Hafts have worked so fiercely for. "Herbert is likely to burn everything down," says a gloomy insider. "It would be surprising if the company survived...
...Books just cost too much!" Herbert took pride in such achievements and kept increasing his son's responsibilities. Since the two fell out last spring, however, Robert has been reduced to waiting outside the Washington Post offices at 3:45 a.m. to read the latest developments in the family feud; the only communications he gets from his father are daily poison faxes. "As much as he loved me is as much as he hates me now," a saddened Robert told the Post last week...
...circumstances, competition in the auto industry gets particularly nasty when business is bad -- as it certainly is in Europe these days. Last week German investigators found three boxes of documents from a General Motors subsidiary in the apartment of former employee Jorge Alvarez Aguirre, now with Volkswagen, and a feud brewing for four months flared into a bitter brawl. Alvarez was one of seven executives who last spring defected to Volkswagen with GM purchasing czar Jose Ignacio Lopez de Arriortua. "I cannot say that the papers we found were secret," said a spokesman for the local prosecutor's office...
...condoning either tyranny or terrorism. Hence they fall back on innuendo, smear tactics or -- in the case of Kanan Makiya, an Iraqi whose recent book Cruelty and Silence, directed against Arab acquiescence in the horrors of Saddam's regime, also fiercely attacks Said -- on distortions of his views. The feud between Makiya and Said has been seized on, to the pleasure of neither, by American anti-Arabists. Said, declaimed A.M. Rosenthal in the New York Times last April, is the kind of Arab intellectual who preaches to other Arabs that "the enemy is, guess ! -- the West, not the despotisms among...
...MUCH BALLYHOOED MAY 27 MEETING WITH IBM CEO LOUIS GERSTNER JR.; A TRUCE WAS EXPECTED IN THEIR FEUD OVER SOFTWARE: It's the most overhyped meeting of all time...