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Dodi al Fayed, the rakish Egyptian-born heir to the billion-dollar Harrods fortune, seemed an unlikely consort for Britain's fairy princess. An unreconstructed playboy, his taste in books seemed to run mainly to a little black one that once contained names such as Brooke Shields and Tawny Kitaen. His past was littered with women he had romanced and rejected, as well as with creditors still hoping to be paid for meals consumed and lodging used long ago. And then there was that vexing question of his family's nationality. Romance novelist Dame Barbara Cartland, Diana's stepgrandmother, spoke...
Elvis had left his entire estate to Lisa Marie, naming his father Vernon executor until Lisa Marie reached age 25. Vernon, who died in 1979, named Priscilla, who was not an heir, as executor. Vernon believed, no doubt correctly, that with dozens of bankers and lawyers circling the estate, Priscilla was the one insider most likely to keep the interests of her daughter at heart...
Since Elisha had just dispatched the heir apparent of the nation's seventh largest company, his attempt to avoid explaining the dismissal was akin to a man trying dodge raindrops in a downpour. Questioned persistently, he finally said Walter lacked "intellectual leadership," then paraphrased Mark Twain: "The difference between president and vice president is like the difference between lightning and a lightning bug." Within hours, Walter's attorney, Bob Barnett, was holed up with AT&T executives, negotiating a golden goodbye. Walter is owed some $25.8 million under the terms of his contract...
ROBERT ALLEN The chairman-king killed his heir apparent, but now the AT&T board is looking to kill the king...
...remorse is for misdeeds committed by others, decades and even centuries ago. The Pope got the ball rolling in 1995 when he apologized for the stake burnings and other pious tortures meted out by the Counter-Reformation in the 16th century. What comes next? The Italian government, heir to the gore and glory that was Rome, should certainly express regret for the intemperate sack of Carthage. (Reparations optional.) Congress could withhold aid to Egypt until the Mubarak government sheds a few public tears for holding the ancient Israelites in bondage. And isn't it high time the new socialist government...