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...just decent--while the background people are weak, mean souls. The townsfolk in High Noon and The Wild One have the same suspicion about the star whether he is a heroic sheriff or a cool motorcyclist. There's a bootstrap isolationism at work here: the world is out to lynch you, so you'd better make it on your...
...more complex battle plans. For starters, they have to be able to pick up the phone every time it rings. That was a major problem in the '87 crash. Clients couldn't get through. And not every client who gets through wants to trade. Many just want advice. Merrill Lynch's crisis plan is drawn from the '87 experience. It will depend on its far-flung army of brokers to stay in contact with clients, while management's main task will be to stay in touch with brokers. At the first sign of a meltdown, spokesman Jim Wiggins says, Merrill...
...mother more than 20 years ago but also that paternity of Jackson was "a possibility." His lawyer confirms he helped support her while she was in school. Why, then, is Jackson on trial? "Prosecutors have a hard time resisting the temptation to be in the headlines," says Gerard Lynch, a former federal prosecutor...
...wants to discuss "how this will affect CBS if I go to any tabloids," or a videotape of the backstage party that followed that final shoot of The Cosby Show, showing Cosby with his arm draped around Jackson. "However much Mr. Cosby is beloved by the universe," says Lynch, "if this young woman has some reasonable basis for believing he is her father, then she becomes in my mind, and I would think for most jurors, a fairly sympathetic figure." Though law professor Stephen Gillers of New York University doubts the defense arguments will prevail, he predicts, "They will tarnish...
There was little chance of that, and Ranariddh said he wouldn't return to Phnom Penh soon. "Hun Sen would lynch me," he predicted. The U.S. suspended $35 million in aid, saying Hun Sen's action was "unacceptable." But American officials admit they have given up on Ranariddh as well. Hun Sen says the dual system of government can go on with another member of Ranariddh's party as co-Prime Minister--though the execution of the prince's associates belies that promise. Late last week a replacement for Ranariddh stepped forward: Toan Chay, governor of Siem Reap province...