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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...