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...some cases, their own relationships. Actors were essentially the studios' property, and anyone who dared protest - Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland, for example - was suspended, effectively blacklisted for a time. The first SAG-studio contract was signed in 1937, but it was only following the Supreme Court's 1948 anti-trust decision against Paramount Studios, which broke the studio monopoly, that actors were set loose. Two years later, Jimmy Stewart negotiated his way into a percentage of Winchester '73's box office grosses - or points on the back end, a practice which remains in place to this...
...Dark Side," Mark Kukis says there is a problem with how the suspected detainees at a shutdown Guantánamo would be prosecuted if brought to the U.S. [Dec. 8]. If this were done, he says, "avowed terrorists" might walk away "on a technicality." In light of recent Supreme Court decisions making the writ of habeas corpus available to Guantánamo detainees, this is precisely how those detainees are to be tried, regardless of venue. To downsize a constitutional right into a technicality in the field of American jurisprudence is equivalent to considering gravity a technicality in the field...
...Though he has yet to file anything in federal court - no indictment has actually been returned against Blagojevich - Genson did hint at part of his strategy in Springfield on Thursday, saying the wiretaps that make up the bulk of the more salacious charges facing the governor were illegal. The evidence gathered in the taps, he said, was "illegally obtained" and should not be considered. He has also argued that all Blagojevich was doing was talking, not committing a crime. (Read TIME's top 10 political lines...
...London Terrorism Conviction A British court convicted Bilal Abdulla, an Iraqi doctor, of planning the foiled 2007 car bombings in London and at Glasgow Airport. An accomplice, Kafeel Ahmed, died in the failed airport attack, intended to punish Britain for its role in the Afghan and Iraq wars. A third man, Mohammed Asha, was cleared of any involvement...
...Thailand Crisis Resolved--For Now Abhisit Vejjajiva, a 44-year-old British-born opposition leader, has become Prime Minister, after months of violent political upheaval and seven years of rule by former PM Thaksin Shinawatra (now in exile) and his party. Weeks after a Thai court dissolved the ruling party for fraud, parliament voted 235 to 198 in favor of Vejjajiva, the middle-class candidate, over a Thaksin loyalist supported by the rural poor...