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...wake of the indictments, the behavior of Enron's former management team has run the gamut from arrogant (this spring Causey asked a judge to unfreeze some of his assets to pay for a country-club membership) to paranoid (in April, Skilling got picked up by police following a drunken scuffle in which he accused fellow bar patrons of being undercover FBI agents) to surprisingly defiant. Lay launched a p.r. blitz last week, using a post-indictment press conference to express grief at his failure to save the company while angrily proclaiming his innocence. "Failure does not equate...
...young people to channel their anger into outright anti-Semitism. "The perpetrators of anti-Semitic attacks that have been caught have usually been lone petty thugs or informal groups of delinquents," says Gérard Fellous, secretary-general of the N.C.C.H.R. "So far, there's been no sign of membership or organization by extremist political or Islamist groups." That absence of an organized link is of little comfort to Jewish leaders. They say French reluctance to denounce anti-Semitism explains why attacks on Jews far outnumber those on France's 5 million Muslims. But Muslim leaders counter that the assumption...
...Everybody's eyes are now open to the fact that preppy can be chic," says Robert Siegel, chairman of Lacoste USA. Now that it's everywhere, at least you don't need the country-club membership to look the part...
...association's primary task is to maintain the graveyard at Monticello. Located just down the hill from the mansion, the half-acre plot is enclosed by an ornate wrought-iron fence and dominated by a granite obelisk that marks the Founding Father's grave. A key benefit of membership is the chance to be buried within a stone's throw. Much of the battle between the Hemings and the Jeffersons has centered on that privilege...
Getting invited, as it turned out, wasn't the same as being welcome. While a handful of association members supported the Hemings' inclusion, most did not. In 2002, the group voted 74 to 6 to deny them full membership. The already strained relations turned decidedly frigid last year when the association restricted the number of Hemings allowed to attend its reunion and attempted to bar them from setting foot inside the graveyard at Monticello. Paulie Abeles, the wife of the association's president at the time, even admitted to having secretly infiltrated an online discussion group that the Hemings...