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...Nobody expected England to do well in the World Cup, apart from their tense and lonely manager Alf Ramsey....
...Photographs: Simon Vernon; Alex Ramsey; Burghley House/National Portrait Gallery; Burghley House; James Byatt; Anthony Pelly; Christopher Jeney; Cartography.co.uk...
...The S&P announcement was followed by report after report from analysts raising concerns: Kenneth Bruce, Merrill Lynch Capital is dangerously close to an acceptable minimum....
...In the meantime Mike Ramsey, Lay’s lawyer, must firstask the courts to extinguish the case against his late client....
...Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, Enron’s former chief executives, are on trial for more than 30 charges, to which they have pleaded innocent....
...Later, outside the courthouse, Mr Ramsey admitted: "It’s never any fun to pick on a sick, crippled person.’’ Mr Frenkel said the tone of the cross-examination could take its toll....
...It is hard to say whether the jurors or Ramsey have had the more pleasant experience....
...Michael Ramsey, Mr Lay’s main lawyer, was last, having returned to the trial for the closing arguments from a prolonged absence for heart surgery....
...Michael Ramsey, Mr Lay’s lawyer, has mocked the witnesses as “finding the Lord when they come to a jailhouse: they never are godly people until they hear the slammer slam”....
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