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...puts its total Parmalat exposure at $540 million. The two banks are leading a counterattack against Bondi in bankruptcy court, arguing that there is no legitimate reason why their claims as creditors should be cut out. Even the U.S. government has jumped in. Scott Kilner, minister counselor for economic affairs at the U.S. embassy in Rome, says his office has been following the Parmalat scandal closely. "We want to be sure that in this case, like in others, U.S. companies are receiving fair and equal treatment," he said. As for Parmalat's own management, while many executives have acknowledged...
...have combed through the company books and dozens of executives - including Tonna, Tanzi, Ferraris and Del Soldato - have made detailed confessions to magistrates in Parma and Milan. Using their testimonies and thousands of pages of official documents, it's now possible to piece together the key parts of the affair. Here's the inside story of how the Coca-Cola of milk managed to go sour. A CRUDE FORGERY For well over a decade, from about 1990 to 2003, investigators say, Parmalat borrowed money from global banks and justified those loans by inflating its revenues through fictitious sales to retailers...
Chunnel Vision FRANCE: Before he left for London to celebrate the Entente Cordiale, France's 100-year-old diplomatic alliance with Britain , French President Jacques Chirac called the relationship between the two countries "l'amour violent" - a tempestuous affair. But when he and Prime Minister Tony Blair gave a press conference, they acted like an old married couple, content to downplay their differences for the sake of the children. Chirac insisted that the Iraq war was "the one and only issue" on which they had fought. "What matters really is all that we have in common in the present...
Hard News is the story of the Jayson Blair affair at The New York Times in the spring of 2003 and its crippling effect on the nation’s most well-respected newspaper. Blair—under the tutelage of top editors Howell Raines and Gerald Boyd, who were ousted from the paper in the scandal’s wake—fictionalized large segments of many stories, including those on the front page; he often didn’t even visit locations, culling colorful details about locations from others’ articles...
Schindel put up half of the Crimson’s points, booting two field goals and adding the extra point on the team’s sole touchdown. An invaluable crutch on special teams for Harvard all year, he made his presence feel more keenly in the low-scoring affair that lacked the usual offesnsive fireworks...