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...family battle. "The only difference between large and small estates is that a large estate has more funds to fuel the feud. In Texas, judges can order people into mediation, and I do, hoping they can work things out, because once you go to court, there's a winner and a loser, and it's permanent. That never goes away...
...informal bid system to divide their mother's possessions. Roy Hagerty, who was executor of the estate, assigned different colored stickers to each brother. "First we went through the house, putting stickers on what we wanted. Anything with two or more stickers on it was bid on, with the winner's price deducted from his portion of the small amount of money we each got from the estate," he says. Although brother Harry didn't score the fringed footstool for his wife and kids, he did go home with his father's old leather chair, some antique furniture and jewelry...
...gone, opening the avenue for Deuba to win back the public. Last week he promised sweeping social, economic and constitutional reforms, building on a package of land-reform measures passed last summer. But in the short term, the war continues to escalate. And while the eventual winner is unknown, the inevitable losers will be Nepal's 23 million, largely poverty-stricken citizens...
Cornell missed a potential game-winner at the end of regulation, and also failed to get a shot off as time expired in the first overtime...
David Willman of the Los Angeles Times, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting, is among the finalists for his investigative report on prescription drugs...