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...Rome Berlusconi Bribe Verdict On Feb. 17 an Italian court found British lawyer David Mills guilty of taking a bribe in exchange for lying in court on behalf of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi during corruption trials in the 1990s. Berlusconi, originally a defendant in Mills' trial, pushed through a law effectively granting himself immunity from prosecution while in office. Both men say they are innocent, and Berlusconi maintains that the trial was politically motivated. Mills, who received a sentence of 4 1/2 years in prison, was not in court for the trial or the verdict and will probably remain free...
...little attention has been paid to the vast number of moms who are forced to have them. More than 9 out of 10 births following a C-section are now surgical deliveries, proving that "once a cesarean, always a cesarean"--an axiom thought to be outmoded in the 1990s--is alive and kicking. Indeed, the International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN), a grass-roots group, recently called 2,850 hospitals that have labor and delivery wards and found that 28% of them don't allow VBACs, up from 10% in its previous survey, in 2004. ICAN's latest findings note that...
...bedrock with a series of steel beams. Without these beams, the library would literally rise up from its underground location.The Barker CenterCompleted in 1997, the Barker Center exists on the lot of land that formerly held several notable buildings: the Student Union, Burr Hall, and Warren House. Until the 1990s, freshman ate in the Student Union. When the University decided to combine the three buildings to form the Barker Center, they first refurbished Memorial Hall in order to transform it into the freshman dining hall that it is today. The Barker Center, designed by the Boston firm Goody, Clancy & Associates...
...banker, played a major role in deals between airlines and unions in the early 1990s - facilitating employee givebacks in exchange for stock, for example...
Media moguls Rupert Murdoch and Silvio Berlusconi were once business buddies. Beginning in the mid 1990s they occasionally lunched at one of Berlusconi's villas, plotting ways they could work together to expand their empires...