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Peter Young The former fund manager at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell in London allegedly siphoned off money in a case that cost more than $460 million. The charges against him were dropped in 2000 after he was declared mentally unfit to stand trial. He had arrived at court dressed as a woman...
...from losing confidence and withdrawing into defensive isolation, Americans declared their determination to defeat the forces of terror and intimidation. A lame-duck mayor of New York galvanized his stunned city and inspired the world with his example. A minority President dismissed by much of the world as unfit for the office replied to the attacks with measured military might, routing the Taliban regime and liberating Afghanistan from the grip of medieval oppression. Most of the free world - and most of the Islamic world - approved of the action. Fears of widespread civilian casualties and a massive Muslim backlash failed...
...states have gone even further, declaring joint custody to be not just legal but the preferred arrangement. Although some judges remain biased in favor of mothers, an estimated 1 in 5 custody arrangements today are shared. Sole custody for the father--mainly in cases in which the mother is unfit or unwilling to share responsibilities--has grown to 15% from 10% a decade ago. "Family courts are flooded with fathers clamoring to be part of their children's lives," says Jayne Major, who runs a Los Angeles support group for parents in custody disputes. "I tell them, 'Unless...
...fraud backed by "foreign manipulators." But it was Chee who was threatened with a lawsuit, after he alleged on Oct. 28 that Goh and Lee had secretly lent $10.6 billion to former Indonesian President Suharto. That charge implied that the Prime Minister and Senior Minister were "dishonest and unfit for office," lawyers representing Goh and Lee said, according to local newspapers. Chee backed down almost immediately and issued two statements of apology, which were deemed "insincere" and "half-hearted" by senior ruling party officials. A third apology read out at a campaign rally was called "political" and "totally inadequate...
Other characters loom large throughout the book, not in their own right, but as anchors in Fox’s sea of impermanence, however unfit for the job they may have been. Fox’s mother is portrayed as unrelentingly cruel and unstable, a woman who hurled a glass of water at her young daughter’s back and begrudged her grown daughter a previous gift of a picture of her grandfather. “How could it be that Elsie was enough of an organic being to have carried me in her belly for a term...