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Reports from overseas claim as many as 3 million direct and indirect Madoff victims worldwide, according to Spanish law firm Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo, which has filed a U.S. lawsuit in the name of some victims. The firm's estimate is based on information collected from 30 law firms around the world representing close to 3,000 people or institutions in 25 nations that have so far taken legal action over the scheme...
...second prime minister of Spain following the death of dictator Francisco Franco, Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo got off to a rocky start when his inauguration was interrupted by an 18-hour military coup on Feb. 23, 1981. Thanks to a television address by King Juan Carlos imploring soldiers to accept the democratic constitution, the coup fell apart. Calvo Sotelo went on to negotiate Spain's entry into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization during his nearly two years as Prime Minister...
...Eisner brought an absolutely revolutionary dimension to the graphic novel, which was to make it an instrument of memory," says Pasamonik. Finally, with a nod toward Edmond-Fran?ois Calvo's 1944 La B?te est Morte (The Beast is Dead) - which uses animals to tell the story of World War II - Art Spiegelman brought the graphic novel worldwide recognition by winning a Pulitzer prize in 1992 for his Holocaust saga, Maus. Eisner and Spiegelman's heirs now litter the globe, from Frenchman Joann Sfar (The Rabbi's Cat) to Iranian Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis). "From Superman to the Rabbi's Cat" pays...
...lends further credence to the suggestion that the disappearance of the witness was directly tied to the case. "I am not condemned, you have condemned yourselves," Etchecolatz told the court when he was sentenced. "It was a clear threat, coming as it did the day after Lopez disappeared," says Calvo...
...letter threatened court officials that they will receive "real justice" if they continue handing out sentences. Calvo, who is a member of the Association of Former Detainees, which had helped bring Etchecolatz to justice, says her association receives constant threats. "When we get home from our meetings, we'll often find on our answering machines a recording of what we discussed there," says Calvo. "They tap our cell phones, using them as microphones to record our conversations...