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Andersen vowed to appeal. After several days of deliberation, jurors had seemed deadlocked; then the judge gave them an instruction to basically force them off the fence, a charge that will now be part of that appeal. "Our purpose was to fight for our honor and dignity. We don't think we committed a crime," said senior Andersen partner C.E. Andrews as he stood in the Texas heat defending the firm, which faces as much as $500,000 in fines and up to five years' probation. While the case may continue, the firm may not. Soon after the verdict, Andersen...
...reasons that Mob stories resonate with us civilians are well rehearsed: loyalty, honor, family, bada-bing, bada-boom. Their audience--especially men--uses them as a source of secondhand machismo and Machiavellian sooth. What's curious, and a little pathetic, is that the same elements appeal to mobsters. But the movies became an attractive model for them only when real Mob life was on the skids, attacked from without by the feds, eaten from within by rats. The Godfather I and II were nostalgia movies, harking back to the glory years of a racket whose best years were behind...
...Winners MICK JAGGER Aging rocker finally knighted. Apparently criteria for knighthood has evolved from "honor and valor" to "not dying of a drug overdose" WOODY ALLEN Director wins settlement of lawsuit against former producers. Class action suit against Woody for Small Time Crooks, though, is still on HAMID KARZAI Afghanistan interim PM wins presidency, thus becoming prime candidate for assassination. He says he'll pick a VP "who looks just like me" Losers REGIS PHILBIN ABC cancels U.S. version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Wiser but poorer, Regis vows to develop a spinoff, Who Wants Bus Money? ANTONIO...
...Many have written of LEW WASSERMAN's power, but they don't really understand its source. It didn't derive from his powerful clients, his brain, or his pocketbook, but from the way he lived his life. Medieval knights lived by a Code of Honor. Lew lived the same...
When Summers was not offending professors, but merely stating his opinion that grade and honor inflation or study abroad were important, faculty say his voice was a powerful...