Shelter From the Storm? Martha isn't going down without a fight. She's clinging to her company, and working the angles to stay out of the slammer.

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Byline: Keith Naughton and Barney Gimbel, With Lindsey Gerdes

Chiara Edmands strolled the pastel aisles of Kmart in Manhattan last week, filling her shopping cart with Martha Stewart kitchenware. She knows the domestic diva was just convicted of four felonies at the federal courthouse a few blocks away. No matter. Edmands just hopes Stewart's stylish, affordable housewares don't disappear. "I don't agree with what she's done," Edmands says as she selects a Martha chopping block, "but as long as she's around, I'll still buy."

If Martha has it her way, she isn't going anywhere. With the guilty verdicts still ringing in her...

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