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What's that buzzing above Glazer's estate?

By Times staff writer, Times wires
Published June 11, 2005

The unbridled belligerence of Manchester United fans to Malcolm Glazer's takeover of the team reportedly has included threats on his life. And that has evidently, and understandably, rattled the Tampa Bay Buccaneers owner.

On June 3, Palm Beach Post columnist Jose Lambiet reported that Glazer had called the local police after he became concerned by a helicopter that appeared to be hovering near his West Palm Beach home. Glazer even managed to write down the copter's fuselage number, which police tracked down to neighbor Bob Miller, Lambiet reported.

Miller, a local developer, told Lambiet he was giving Palm Beach County Commissioner Jeff Koons a ride to show him the neighborhood.

"When I got to my office, the police were on the phone asking about a sniper onboard," Lambiet quoted Miller as saying. "I was flying with the doors off that day, but I can attest no one wanted to do Malcolm in."

Glazer and Miller couldn't immediately be reached for comment. Koons and a public information officer at the West Palm Beach Police Department didn't return phone calls.

Former WorldCom Inc. chief executive Bernard Ebbers is asking a federal judge for a lighter sentence than the "draconian life sentence" recommended by the government.

In a brief filed Friday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, attorneys for Ebbers, who is 63 years old, cited his good character, age, poor health and low risk of a repeat offense as reasons for a lighter sentence.

He was convicted in March of nine counts of fraud, conspiracy and making false filings with regulators. Ebbers' sentencing by Judge Barbara Jones is scheduled for July 13.

YAHOO PONDERS THE BROWSER BUSINESS: Yahoo Inc., owner of the most-visited Web site, may consider developing its own Internet browser to help attract more users and advertisers to its Web sites, CEO Terry Semel said. "You could look to Yahoo to do most everything that makes sense on the Internet going forward," Semel, 62, said Friday. Developing a browser may make sense "at some point in time," he said.

Information from Times staff writer Louis Hau, the Associated Press and Bloomberg News was used in this report.

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