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...trial," Skilling attorney Daniel Petrocelli told TIME. "I'm going to be real clear to the jury [in closing arguments] about conduct that is appropriate. You can't try business cases in a criminal courtroom unless you've got real solid evidence that a crime has been committed." Said Lay attorney Mike Ramsey: "Clearly there's got to be a connection between business judgments and specific intent. That bright line is being erased by these prosecutions, and the Supreme Court and the appellate court are having none of it." Enron trial prosecutor Sean Berkowitz declined to offer comment to TIME...
...Simeon T. Lake ultimately will give to the jury in the Enron trial. "In the Enron trial there's going to be a battle royal over a jury instruction known as deliberate ignorance," says Houston attorney David Berg, author of The Trial Lawyer: What It Takes to Win. " In Lay and Skilling's case it's, 'I didn't know what was going on in the company.' Deliberate-ignorance jury instructions have held a person criminally liable when their denial of knowledge doesn't make sense. But now the judge is going to have to instruct the jury that Skilling...
...most successful businessman in the chair triangle. His company, the namesake Calligaris, was started by his grandfather in 1923 and is still growing. Revenues last year rose 12%, to $140 million. His first big insight, more than a decade ago, was to figure out that the future lay beyond chairs. The Calligaris furnishing collection, sold under the slogan "Italian Living," last year included sofas and beds for the first time, as well as shelves, tables and, of course, chairs. One big shift came in 2000 when the firm began buying and processing its wood in Croatia, at a plant near...
...your article had featured ordinary folks whose ambition drove them to be successful physicians, caregivers, inventors and scientists - people who actually work to keep humankind alive and functioning. Here's to the B-team players! Bill Lenters Rockford, Illinois, U.S. I enjoyed reading your article about ambition as I lay on my sofa munching popcorn. I'm now working up the ambition to go make dinner and finish the laundry. Annette Brehm West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S. Ford Focused The quality of Ford's products must be improved [Feb. 6]. It's not rocket science. Build safe and sturdy cars that...
...foreign to the people of Iran. It is not implausible, however, that events such as this one, taking place in the context of an unstable and uncertain geopolitical rivalry between the U.S. and Iran, might cause controversy. Some critics of the event have suggested that behind the concert lay hidden motives—that an event to raise awareness of human rights issues in Iran was, in fact, a bid for a war to liberate the Middle Eastern country. The organizers of the concert have denied all such accusations—co-emcee Jack P. McCambridge...