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...guess would be that as the insurgency continues to create insecurity, sectarian militias will continue to grow in power and influence. They will increasingly supply local security, but in the form of protection rackets that extort as they protect. They will clash with each other over territory and control of revenue sources. Since the Sunnis remain highly disorganized, some of these local fights may initially be intra-Shi'ite. But in the absence of effective political incorporation and protection from national police and army units--which are heavily infiltrated by Shi'ite militias--Sunnis will gradually form a patchwork...
...STILL JENNY WITH THE TAPE Thanks to the New York City police department, the world may never have to see JENNIFER LOPEZ and MARC ANTHONY shoving wedding cake into each other's mouths. Officials arrested two men for allegedly trying to extort as much as $1 million for the couple's stolen wedding videos. Police say after Tito Moses and Steven Wortman failed to sell footage of the 2004 nuptials to the press, the men tried to ransom it to officers posing as Anthony's associates. The singer-actors are currently filming a biopic of salsa star Hector Lavoe. Unfortunately...
...firm is pure fiction-and should be required reading for attorneys who haven't yet learned how to laugh at themselves. Being a lawyer, according to the author, boils down to "fooling clients into believing [we] have some real expertise and using fear and manipulation to extort excessive hourly fees." He rails against idiot clients, partners and associates, admitting "you can't work at a place like this and have integrity." But he's not offering apologies, only rationalizations. What separates him from the "truly evil," he writes, is this: "I know when I'm over the line...
...page exclusive at a provincial daily). To make ends meet, some take on public relations work or sell advertising, placing them in direct conflict with their supposed mission of impartially reporting the news. In some cases, journalists are paid nothing, but are instead expected to use their influence to extort money from local business owners and politicians. Inday Espina-Varona, chairwoman of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines and editor in chief of the newsweekly Philippine Graphic, says, "In the provinces, there's a standing joke: 'When you get hired as a journalist, you won't need...
...Amendment, which was introduced in 1996, had never posed a problem for Harvard, which has a long-standing policy of requiring employers to sign an anti-discrimination pledge in order to recruit on campus. But under the Bush administration, the military began using the Solomon Amendment as grounds to extort Harvard and other universities into granting waivers from their non-discrimination policies. The government threatened to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding unless the military is provided unfettered access to recruit on campus...