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Article: Haft Family's Conflicts, Tragedies Pose Threat for Dart Investors
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- The Washington Post
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- September 8, 1994
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Like some ancient Greek tragedy unfolding on a modern American
stage, the bitter power struggle among members of Washington's Haft
family is a spectacle of character flaws, emotional pain and serious
errors in judgment.
While individual members of the Haft clan may not exhibit all
the traits that are generally ascribed to characters in a classic
Greek tragedy, the unraveling of the family and the real threat
that that poses to the businesses they founded do contain elements
of genuine tragedy.
Tragic though the Hafts may be as a family, their ongoing
public conflict is a disturbing development for investors.
The Greek tragedy, as poetic art, said Aristotle, should have
an unhappy ...