Word: agente
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...been called a spy of Israel since 1996, and since I made my documentary film in 2000 the FBI has investigated me as an agent of Iraq. The FBI has also opened up an investigation into my wife calling her a KGB spy. So there is this form of harassment taking place...
...satire of Judge Fuld that had the entire room--40 clerks and Judge Fuld--in hysterical tears," says U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein. "That marked him in my mind. Years later, when the Agent Orange case was in front of me and I needed somebody to try and settle it, I reached back in my mind to Ken because he was not only brilliant, but he had a particular sense of humor that would make people want to work with...
With no previous mediation experience, Feinberg settled Agent Orange--a decade-long case pitting veterans against Dow Chemical, Monsanto and the U.S. government over the use of a toxic defoliant in Vietnam--in six weeks. Soon other judges and lawyers were asking him to step between warring parties, and in cases ranging from the faulty birth-control device Dalkon Shield to asbestos exposure, Feinberg got the job done, more or less inventing the field of mass tort mediation as he went along. "The secret to Ken's success," says a judge who has worked with Feinberg on a number...
...sought counseling as a result of hearing horror story after horror story, and he is skeptical of any attempt to depict him as transformed by Sept. 11. "I honestly do not believe that I've been surprised by any of it," he says matter-of-factly. "I went through Agent Orange, which was pretty rough, and I anticipated on this assignment that it would be rough emotionally, and it has been. But I'm not surprised." What Feinberg will admit is that the experience has caused him to recalibrate his job description. "In dealing with these claims," he says...
...says bringing in outside business people to salvage portfolios is part of a general restructuring of the VC industry in Europe. "Venture capital needs to rethink its business model," Borgdorff says. Smaller VC firms are already testing new models. London's Ariadne Capital, for example, acts as a sales agent for its companies, taking a slice of the revenues as they are created, rather than waiting for an exit strategy - like an initial public offering - to get a return on investment. In addition to sourcing capital, Ariadne views its job as putting technology buyers together with sellers and finding experienced...