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...Kirchner, who represents the province of Buenos Aires, has a reputation as an implacable anti-corruption fighter with little time for traditional political niceties. She has ruffled feathers even within the couple's Peronist party and is seen by observers as a more temperamental and radical politician than her husband. President Kirchner, on the other hand, is a mild and soft-spoken operator who rescued Argentina from the agonizing economic crisis that followed the country's default on its foreign debt in late 2001. Assuming office in 2003, President Kirchner broke with traditional free-market economic recipes, settled the country...
...improve upon the blurb written by Grady Hendrix of the Subway Cinema collective, the NYAFF's producers and programmers: "A vertiginous slide down a swirling toilet bowl of bad taste, Aachi & Ssipak ... has repulsed movie critics and delighted audiences around the world. Not since the animated anti-authoritarian head trips of Ralph Bakshi has a movie done so much so quickly: within the first reel it's dispensed more ultra-violence than a thousand action films, annihilated all boundaries of good taste and bent numerous intellectual properties (like Batman) over the table and violated them so gleefully they may never...
...Gaddafi's son, Seif al-Islam, told TIME. But accepting responsibility for Lockerbie in 2003 was a condition of the U.N. lifting sanctions and the U.S. removing Libya from its list of states sponsoring terrorism. The North African state is now a strategic partner for the U.S. in its anti-terrorism efforts and as a major oil producer. If Megrahi is acquitted, Libya and the U.S. will both likely tread carefully. Neither seems to have much to gain from upsetting their current relationship, but an exoneration of Megrahi would be a sign to the world that, perhaps, Libya has been...
...academic policy side, [CLS] was very contentious—people regarded proponents of critical legal studies as anti-law in some sense,” Tushnet said. “There were cultural differences between the younger generation attracted to Critical Legal Studies and the older generation that found it unsettling...
...warned that its continuation could cost thousands of British jobs and imperil intelligence ties with the Saudis - BAE revealed this week that it is now under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. The DoJ, according to a statement by BAE, is examining the company's compliance with U.S. anti-corruption laws in its business deals "concerning the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia." The American investigation appears to center around the fact that BAE used the U.S. banking system to make large regular payments to accounts controlled by Bandar...