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Most such cases are undertaken on a contingency-fee basis--meaning the lawyers collect nothing if they lose but commonly take about one-third of the award if they win. From the moment Edwards emerged as a possible presidential contender, Republicans have tried to cast him as a millionaire ambulance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trial Lawyer: Court and Spark: Edwards' Legal Career | 7/19/2004 | See Source »

The Script: Naturally, Chalabi's script has had to undergo several rewrites since it became clear to his backers in Washington that simply shoe-horning him into power would be a disaster. Unable to muster any significant support on the ground, Chalabi's star has waned as a contender for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Players in Iraq's New Sovereignty | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

Catalina Ponor wants to be the next Nadia Comaneci. At the Montreal Olympics in 1976, the 14-year-old Romanian gymnast revolutionized her sport by scoring the first-ever perfect 10.00 on the uneven bars, capturing hearts all over the world and launching an era of child gymnastics stars. Ponor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is She the Next Nadia? | 6/27/2004 | See Source »

The succession race at GE was grueling and public. Nardelli, who has the forceful bearing of an offensive lineman, has compared it to playing in the Super Bowl--"the last two minutes for two years." He lobbied Welch for the chance to run his own unit, then took GE's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bob The Builder | 6/21/2004 | See Source »

Meanwhile, an intelligence heavyweight last week entered the fray with a new reform proposal that is already gathering high-level attention. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Porter Goss - a former CIA clandestine services officer and leading contender for CIA director if President Bush is re-elected - quietly introduced a bill that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIA Wants Cheney Out of Senate Intel Report | 6/21/2004 | See Source »

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