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This time the guerrillas surrendered quietly, having long ago swapped their '70s extremism for 21st century suburban anonymity. William Harris, who served more than eight years in prison along with his ex-wife Emily for their role in kidnapping Hearst, married a lawyer, coaches soccer and works as a private investigator in San Francisco. Police pulled over William, formerly known as General Teko, in his Honda Passport SUV shortly after 8 a.m., as he was driving his kids to school. Emily, a computer consultant who has gone back to using her maiden name, Montague, was stopped near her suburban...
...revived with the 1999 arrest of Olson. According to the Sacramento district attorney, the FBI has used new forensic techniques to link the lead pellets in Opsahl's abdomen to shotgun shells recovered from an S.L.A. safe house. Olson's guilty plea in the bombing plot reportedly confirmed what Hearst told the FBI decades ago--that the loot from the robbery helped finance subsequent S.L.A. crimes...
...They are two middle-aged, middle-class people who have paid their debt," says Stuart Hanlon, who represented Emily and William Harris in their earlier trial and signed on as Emily's attorney again last week. "It's like The Twilight Zone." More of the past may surface if Hearst, who served two years on a different robbery charge, is called to testify. Granted immunity years ago, Hearst described the carefully choreographed heist in her 1982 book, Every Secret Thing, writing that Emily Harris confided she had shot Opsahl, saying "it really doesn't matter. She was a bourgeois...
...events captured the willful hubris of the late '90s like the summer 1999 launch of Talk magazine. The hype-driven, bicoastal venture of Hearst Magazines and Miramax Films began life with a celebrity editor, Tina Brown; with the requisite '90s whiff of "synergy" (articles becoming books becoming movies becoming magazine covers!); and with a party, complete with fireworks and paparazzi, at the feet of the Statue of Liberty. It ended life last week with a whimper, as Brown tearfully broke the news of its closing to her staff, followed by a subdued dinner...
...were money problems as well. Despite weak advertising, Brown was a notorious big spender ("I did not go over budget [at Talk]," she insisted to TIME), and in just 2 1/2 years, Talk's losses swelled to an estimated $50 million. There was friction between Brown and her backers, Hearst executives and Harvey Weinstein, the hard-charging Miramax co-chairman. While Talk actually increased its ad pages and revenue in 2001, the post-Sept. 11 economic slump appeared to deliver the coup de grace. Said Talk Media president Ron Galotti, "It became fairly bleak for someone...not part...