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...just not the hero type, clearly," swaggering billionaire weapons contractor Tony Stark explains to the press in the first of this summer's bumper crop of comic-book films, Iron Man, "with this laundry list of character defects and all the mistakes I've made, largely publicly." Stark, who by the way clearly [does] think he's the hero type, is played by another sort you might not associate with saving the planet: Robert Downey...
...Penn has long been the most controversial figure in Clinton's political orbit, in part because his other relationships have repeatedly placed her campaign in an uncomfortable position. Among his firm's clients have been drug companies, a tuna industry group, a tobacco firm and the controversial military contractor Blackwater USA. What finally forced Penn's demotion was a Wall Street Journal report last Friday that, as part of a contract Burson-Marsteller had entered into, he had met with the Colombian ambassador to discuss promoting a free-trade agreement with that country - even as Clinton was denouncing the deal...
...Private security contractor...
...greater turnout for the Socialists. But of a dozen voters interviewed as they left a Madrid polling place today, none said the assassination had influenced his or her vote. José López was typical: "We've lived with this problem for 30 years," the 46-year-old contractor said. "It's not going to change anything...
...idea. It explores the U.S. government’s systems of classification and official concealment used to keep sensitive information from the public.The filmmakers trace the precedent of the State Secrets Privilege back to a 1953 Supreme Court decision in which the widow of Robert Reynolds (an Air Force contractor who died in a then-unexplained plane crash) was told that the official accident report could not be revealed because it would reveal sensitive information.As it turns out, Reynolds wasn’t testing secret equipment as the government claimed. But in “Secrecy...