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...three hostages--a prize that over and over had eluded the Philippine army and the 1,200 American advisers sent in January to assist the local military. But when the fighting ended several hours later, things had gone badly wrong. Martin Burnham, 42, a Christian missionary from Kansas, lay dead in the jungle. The nurse, Ediborah Yap, 48, had been shot in the back and died moments later. A bullet passed through the leg of Gracia Burnham, 43, and she had to be airlifted to Manila for treatment. Four Abu Sayyaf gang members also died in the shoot...
...EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION] [Strong stench] Former chairman Ken Lay collected some $200 million in Enron compensation from 1999 until he resigned in January, including a $7 million annual incentive...
...INSIDER STOCK SELLING] [Strong stench] Lay unloaded more than $100 million of Enron stock in the past three years. Last year alone, he sold $25.7 million in company stock as the share price fell from $80 to less than...
...CONTRITION] [Thoroughly rotten] Before pleading the Fifth, Lay told Congress about his "profound sadness about what has happened to Enron." He sent his tearful wife Linda to tell viewers on NBC that "we've lost everything...
...comes a psychiatrist, who calls the Roman Catholic Church a dysfunctional family. Then a theology student, then a young father, then the mother of an abused boy and, finally, Marie Darcy. Darcy has 10 children back home in Merrimack, N.H., but left them tonight to conspire with the Catholic lay group Voice of the Faithful because, well, because it touches on her status as part of the body of Christ. "We are all heirs to Christ, but it doesn't feel that way," says Darcy. "The decisions come down from above, and that's it. The people in the pews...