Word: edgars
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Butler's defense: his men weren't authorized to conduct actions off his property, and they were volunteers, not employees. "This case is really about Dees vs. Butler," says the Aryans' lawyer, Edgar Steele. "It's a free-speech case. I'm representing one of the most vilified men in the country. People don't like his views. But it's still legal to hate Jews...
...Celebration of the Lizard - Doors 2. Cortez the Killer - Neil Young 3. I'm Going Home - Ten Years After 4. Tobacco Road - Edgar Winter 5. Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd 6. Won't You Try/Saturday Afternoon - Jefferson Airplane 7. Love Sick - Bob Dylan 8. Jam 1 - Derek and the Dominos 9. Laurel Canyon Home - John Mayall 10. White Wedding - Billy Idol
...talk of a $35 billion purchase of Canada's Seagram by France's Vivendi represents the latest human attempt to make some of these pieces click into a seamless, revenue-generating new-economy Tinkertoy. The toy boys in this deal, Vivendi CEO Jean-Marie Messier, 43, and Seagram CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr., 45, can't resist the urge to merge Vivendi's telephone company, Internet provider and cable system with Seagram's Universal Studios and Universal Music Group...
Combining Vivendi (1999 revenues: $41.8 billion) and Seagram ($12.3 billion) would bring a fat payoff for Edgar Bronfman Jr. and the entire Bronfman family, which owns nearly 25% of Seagram. Bronfman has had to endure endless Hollywood brickbats since his father tapped him for the top job in 1994. Outsiders ridiculed the Bronfman scion, who writes pop songs under the pseudonym Junior Miles, as a star-struck dilettante when he jettisoned Seagram's lucrative 24.2% stake in DuPont and used the proceeds to buy Universal. It didn't help that DuPont stock promptly doubled, as Seagram's own shares sparkled...
...there was hopelessness: Would a court in segregationist Alabama really do justice? And then there were the cops. During the '60s, the Klan had ears and eyes and tongues within the local police force. Nonetheless, after two years, FBI agents felt they had a strong case but said J. Edgar Hoover and his senior administrators blocked them from sharing their findings with prosecutors...