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...biggest family feuds, regardless of the size of the estate, are over personal property. "Many parents, in an effort to avoid conflict--or simply because it's so much work--take a 'Let them work it out after we're dead' approach," say Joanna Reiver, an estate attorney in Wilmington, Del. Since there's an emotional value to family belongings that supersedes money, that can be a serious mistake. Jerry Wolf, an attorney in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., recalls a case of his in which two siblings fought over their mother's jewelry. "The legal fees topped $70,000 for something...
...tapped to run a 1,000-employee aircraft-engine parts plant in Wilmington, N.C. At 40, she led the integration into GE of Greenwich Aviation Services, a $1.6 billion company that the larger firm had just acquired. Two years ago, Immelt and his successor at GE Medical, Joe Hogan, persuaded Mellor to move her family to the division's suburban Milwaukee, Wis., headquarters...
...hardly about what happens between the lines in the 119th playing of the football game. Rigorous academic research suggests that the actual game itself stopped being important circa 1923, back in the good ol’ days of dinky leather helmets worn by guys named Poindexter Q. Wilmington...
...basic legal premise that one is innocent until proved guilty seems to be ignored by the Wilmington, Del., police who are detaining innocent people on the street in high-crime areas and taking their pictures to file in a database [LAW, Sept. 23]. While police have the right to take photographs in a public place, they are on a slippery slope when it comes to searching and detention. It seems that being African American makes one a police target. And if the only cause for a search is being black, doesn't that mean any contraband found would be viewed...
...Many Wilmington residents appreciate the efforts of their police. Ann McGrellis, 33, a sales assistant in downtown Wilmington, says, "The bottom line is, if you're not doing anything wrong, you don't have to worry about the jump-out squads." Mills, who believes he was targeted because of his race and address, might beg to disagree. --With reporting by Simon Crittle/Wilmington