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...Wednesday, Santa Barbara County district attorney Thomas Sneddon Jr. announced with unsuppressed glee that he had issued a warrant for Jackson's arrest, apostrophizing, "Get over here and get checked in." The next day Jackson flew in from Las Vegas on his private jet and was put in manacles. The Gloved One had become the Cuffed One. Freed on a $3 million bond, he faces formal charges, perhaps next week, and an arraignment...
Black's problems may be just starting, however. Tweedy, Browne's complaints to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) go much deeper. Black and his wife, columnist Barbara Amiel, and several top executives received other payments now being examined. Black, Amiel and the executives are affiliated with a private firm called Ravelston Corp., which received $203 million from Hollinger from 1995 to 2002 for so-called service agreements. Hollinger admitted in March that these agreements "were not the result of arm's length negotiations between independent parties" and thus may not be favorable to the company. Yet Hollinger's board...
...that James, whose average-guy nickname, Tony, fits his amiable demeanor, is next in line for the CEO job, though current CEO and president Stephen Schwarzman, who co-founded the firm, is just four years James' senior. For now at least, Schwarzman's office has kept its walls. --By Barbara Kiviat/New York
...outsider, Anne appears perfectly normal. She is impeccably dressed, her white hair is immaculate, and she wears a corsage of pink baby roses on her lapel. She engages in conversation, cracks jokes and seems thrilled to be surrounded by so many loved ones. But talk to her daughter Barbara Reiter, and it's clear that Anne isn't normal at all. She insists that she didn't know about the party, even though, Barbara says, "I told her about it every day for at least a week." Barbara got her mother dressed that morning and took her to the beauty...
MOST IMPORTANT, DON'T FORGET TO GET OFF-LINE "It's easy to sit at your computer all day," says Susan Joyce, who runs Jobhunt.org "But people are still hired by people. You still need the face-to-face." --By Barbara Kiviat...