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...highly visible CEO and namesake of her publicly traded company, and if she said nothing, she risked having her name sullied, her stock trashed and shareholder suits filed. Yet speaking up was worse. Her statements could be used against her in court. Indeed, the whole case flowed from her ill-advised explanation to investigators that she had a stop-loss order at $60. "She and her lawyers violated the first rule of criminal defense, 'Don't talk to the cops,'" says Manhattan criminal-defense attorney Gerald Shargel. That assumes, of course, that the hands-on Stewart was following her lawyers...
Hometown: Peru, Ill...
...when the U.S. intervened to restore Aristide to power after a military coup aborted his first presidency in 1991. With 20,000 troops on the ground, Washington embarked on an effort many Haitians now characterize as a half-baked nation-building program that yielded little more than ill-trained, corruption-prone institutions, like the police force Philippe led in Cap Haitien. The U.S., Philippe says, "is partly responsible for what is happening...
...suffered decades of bloodshed and dictatorship--not to mention the possession of souls--seems to offer a formidable prospect for a novelist: What fiction can possibly stand up to such charged reality? Danticat, though, only 35 and already the author of three acclaimed works of fiction on her ill-starred home and one work of nonfiction, is undaunted. In The Dew Breaker she brings together myriad perspectives on the central torturer into a kind of mosaic. "It's a puzzle," as a teenage killer in one story says, "but a weird-ass kind of puzzle." A stained-glass window...
Michael Eisner is in the midst of trying to fend off a fierce campaign to oust him as Disney CEO. Not the best time for an old letter to emerge that Eisner wrote to former superagent Michael Ovitz, who spent an ill-fated 14 months as Disney president. It surfaced as a result of a shareholder lawsuit challenging Ovitz's $140 million severance package. Hollywood game: Who comes off worse, Eisner or Ovitz? --By Jeffrey Ressner...