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...playbook of reliable sitcom conventions, renewing marital vows is usually reserved for the sixth or seventh season (see Everybody Loves Raymond et al.). OZZY and SHARON OSBOURNE decided to renew their vows last week in what is only the family's second season on MTV. At the Beverly Hills Hotel on New Year's Eve, before friends, family, Justin Timberlake, the Village People--and everyone watching MTV--Sharon and Ozzy, who have been married for 20 years, rededicated themselves to each other. It can't be long before Ozzy packs up the whole family for a two-part European adventure...
...with the Special Branch and MI5, Britain's domestic security service - raided premises in North and East London early on Jan. 5 and took six men, all believed to be North Africans, into custody under the Terrorism Act of 2000. (A woman arrested with them was released, and a seventh man was apprehended later.) On Saturday, four of the men - named by Scotland Yard as Mustapha Taleb, Mouloud Feddag, Sidali Feddag and Samir Feddag - were charged with chemical weapons production and terrorism offenses. A fifth man was charged under forgery and counterfeiting laws and a sixth with drug offenses, while...
Watkins has the kind of booming personality that refuses to escape notice. At 13, she was unimpressed that her principal split his time between running her Lutheran school and teaching the seventh-and eighth-graders. If his administrative duties called, he would simply send them out for an hour-long recess. She complained so loudly that the principal was divested of his two hats and left the school a year or so later. "He needed to pay attention," she remembers, "or we weren't going to learn." Then, as now, Watkins voices her views firmly, and she never filibusters...
...chief Jeffrey Skilling and his financial whiz, Andrew Fastow, wanted to build a nimble, "asset-light" firm that could exploit deregulating markets for energy, water, weather derivatives, broadband capacity and anything else that could be turned into a commodity. The strategy spawned explosive growth. By 2000, Enron was the seventh largest company in America. The '90s were fat times for Enron, and the corporate culture oozed in excess. The company rented ski condos in Beaver Creek, Colo., and stocked each with a personal chef. Christmas parties were multimillion-dollar, black-tie affairs with ice sculptures...
...time Trent was ready to start the seventh grade, his family had moved to Pascagoula, where his father got a job as a pipe fitter in the shipyard. Trent was too small for football, so he played tuba in the band. He had such a space between his front teeth that he was nicknamed "Gap." But he was smart and friendly, discreetly helping classmates with homework and lavishing attention on kids like himself who weren't athletic or attractive. "And you know what?" he once told Time. "Turns out we were the majority...