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...During Bateman’s dissertations on Huey Lewis and the News, Phil Collins, or Whitney Houston while having sex or killing yuppies. Crimson editors don’t usually write their reviews while watching themselves in violent coitus with hookers, but I’ve heard the Yale Daily News does things their...
...EXTRADITED. David Bermingham, 43, Giles Darby, 44, and Gary Mulgrew, 43, British former bankers for Greenwich NatWest; in a case that has sparked controversy in the U.K. over U.S. extradition powers; to Houston, Texas. Known as the "NatWest Three," the men are accused of conspiring with Enron executives to defraud their employers through the sale of a stake the bank held in a unit of the collapsed energy firm. All three pleaded not guilty...
...worth the cost. The drain on U.S. resources is becoming embarrassing. According to the Associated Press, the diversion of money for Iraq is partly responsible for a shortfall in an Army fund that has left one base, Fort Bragg, unable to buy office supplies. Another base, Fort Sam Houston, has received utility disconnection notices...
...constitutional right to participate in his criminal appeal. And since he's no longer alive to help his attorneys prepare, the case will be "extinguished" - as if it never happened, explains Houston attorney Joel Androphy, author of the textbook White Collar Crime. "It's as if he was never charged and convicted," says Androphy. "This is the law. There may have been a moral victory for the government, but there's no longer a legal victory...
...entire tragedy almost takes on Shakespearean dimensions," says David Berg, a Houston attorney who authored The Trial Lawyer: What it Takes to Win. "His fall from power was so great that it just destroyed him. In some ways, you would think that Ken Lay would rather have died than spent a moment in prison." Lay, who was awaiting sentencing in the fall, faced imprisonment for possibly the rest of his life. "On some subconscious level, it's a polite form of suicide. He was not going to let himself be imprisoned...