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...Jacke Chan a run for his “Rush Hour” money. Their “Matrix”-like jumping and kicking seemed to defy gravity. As the performers managed to jump nearly three feet in the air, Hayek felt compelled to offer them a Hollywood contract. “If I ever need marshal arts training for a role, I know who to call,” she said...
...which he once worked, but the big man is finally shaking things up. Over the past month Githongo, a fastidious diary keeper, has leaked to the bbc and to Kenyan newspapers a timeline of his investigation into a company, Anglo Leasing and Finance, that in 2003 was awarded a contract worth tens of millions to produce tamper-proof passports for Kenya's immigration department. But it didn't produce passports or, in fact, exist beyond a British address that Britain's Serious Fraud Office says it is now investigating; the company was, Githongo says, nothing more than the fictitious creation...
...Although the Dubai deal had already been approved by CFIUS, "the rationale for reopening it is, once DP carved out the American ports from the rest of the contract it changed the nature of the agreement so it had to be reviewed again," says King, who had been among the leading GOP voices opposing the deal as first approved without the extra 45-day review process or briefing of Congress. King says will await final details before formally backing any such deal. King added "If we are going to hold back on legislation, I think there has to be continuous...
...unlike New York University and the University of Michigan, the last two universities to take action against Coca-Cola, Swarthmore’s administration stopped short of eliminating the contract by which Coca-Cola supplies the college dining hall’s soda fountains...
Although Bridges-Curry said that Kick Coke will continue to lobby for the termination of Swarthmore’s Coca-Cola contract, which will expire in 2007, she hailed the college’s action as “an important first step in terms of indicating that Coke has to be accountable for its actions abroad...