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...nudity. Yet the cash doesn't go far. In 1992 David Gagnon, 37, quietly settled his suit for three years of sexual molestation by the Rev. Michael Doucette, one of two active Portland, Me., priests suspended March 9. After paying his legal bill, typically one-third of the total award, Gagnon netted $63,000. That kept him going for a year with therapy at $150 an hour. But 22 years after Father Doucette destroyed his trust, Gagnon has yet to regain his emotional footing. "Money can't heal anything," he says. "But it's an important sign that something went...
...feat few grownups have cared to accomplish, the nominating committee of the Daytime Emmy Awards has learned how to tell the difference between twins MARY-KATE and ASHLEY OLSEN, 15. Last week only Mary-Kate was nominated for an acting award for So Little Time, the TV show on the ABC Family network in which they both star. Apparently Mary-Kate's portrayal of the spontaneous Riley Carlson resonated more deeply than Ashley's depiction of the overachieving Chloe Carlson. In addition to the TV show, the two collaborate on a self-titled clothing line, a self-titled magazine...
...Number of animated features ever nominated for Best Picture (Beauty and the Beast in 1991). This year they get their own award: Best Animated Feature...
...become the CISCO of China. The scientists and a third alleged co-conspirator are still awaiting trial. U.S. intelligence has tipped off American businesses when it has learned their competitors have not been playing by the rules--for example, in cases in which bribery threatened to influence the award of a big aerospace contract in Saudi Arabia and a telecom contract in Brazil. But U.S. agencies are reluctant to go much beyond such warnings, out of concern about not favoring one firm over another...
...might be even more dramatic. Could a developing country stand up to a timber giant wanting to clear-cut the rain forest? A multinational retailer flouting labor laws? Says Mary Bottari, of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, a liberal activist group: "The mere threat of a vast damage award could make poorer nations concede before the fight...