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...aired on the BBC, the poetry recitation was cut. Learning of the slight at a postawards dinner, Crowe confronted the show's producer, Malcolm Gerrie, escorted him to a storage room and shoved him against a wall. Like the regular bloke he endlessly insists he is, Crowe offered his complaint in a plainspoken way, saying, "Who on earth had the [expletive] audacity to take out the Best Actor's poem?" Crowe later defended his actions but conceded he may have been too "passionate" in making his point...
...were capable of making such a meal myself, it would have taken me all day to shop, chop and cook. As it was, my toughest task was poking open the plastic pouches. In fact, my big complaint has little to do with the sites. After eating so well, I can't imagine going back to my real life of stand-up meals and leftovers. Now I long for filet mignon...
...asbestos-related illness, maintains that he never saw a dime. So on Feb. 7 he joined 2,644 other plaintiffs in another class action. This one charges six personal-injury attorneys and their firms in federal court in Pittsburgh, Pa., with fraud, malpractice and deception--or, as the complaint boldly states, "this case arises from corruption within the asbestos personal injury...
That's how in 1995 Ronald Huber became one faceless plaintiff among 5,000 class members--"They viewed their clients as mere inventory," the 2002 complaint says of its defendants. These mass tort cases typically involve dozens or even hundreds of corporate defendants and thousands of plaintiffs. There could be a core of wrenching cancer cases, but many of the plaintiffs are healthy people who could prove that they had been exposed to asbestos. Publicity about the evils of big corporations and asbestos cover-ups helped make for plaintiff-friendly juries, especially in states such as Texas and Mississippi, where...
...Steel Wars President George W. Bush provoked outrage and formal complaints from America's major trading partners after imposing tariffs of up to 30% on foreign steel imports. E.U. trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy said the "shortsighted" move broke international trade rules and filed a formal complaint with the World Trade Organization. Several other countries including Japan and Russia followed suit. Bush said the measures were "temporary safeguards" to allow the restructuring of the U.S. steel industry. But E.U. member states, fearing a diversion of steel imports into Europe, said they would seek compensation...