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...Indeed, even Beedie's own family seems ambivalent about the suit. He and Downie, his 22-year-old fellow plaintiff, both come from a long line of fishermen, and their fathers were together on a boat that sank in 1980. Nobody died in that wreck, and nobody thought to file a compensation claim. They returned to sea the following week. Today, stiff, stooped and grimacing as he makes a pot of tea, Beedie's father Willie struggles to answer when asked how he feels about his son's case. "You want what's best for your son and for your...
...Tintin in Congo (although this book is particularly popular in Africa). Hergé was later arrested for being a wartime collaborator as he continued to draw cartoons for newspapers that were controlled by the Nazi occupiers during World War II. He spent a night in prison, but his file was eventually closed without legal action. But rumors and insinuations followed him for the rest of his life, and he had frequent bouts of depression...
Probably not much. Though anyone could file an ethics complaint against Gonzales, and a lawyer disciplinary committee could start poking around on its own, the reality is that state bars are neither bold nor swift. As Silver puts it, "I'd be astonished to find the Texas bar taking the lead...
Meanwhile, students at a high school in McLean, Va., are trying to bring down Turnitin by suing its parent company, iParadigms, for alleged copyright infringement. To file such a lawsuit, a writer has to pay $45 to register a copyright, be it for a Pulitzer prizewinning novel or a ninth-grader's meanderings on Animal Farm, and the penalty per copyright violation can be as much as $150,000. So if the McLean High School students prevail with their copyrighted essays--a trial will probably begin this fall--ambulance- chasing lawyers will start tailing school buses, and Turnitin may have...
...Iraqis oil traders, on the other hand, tell me they think they know exactly where the stolen oil is going - the militias appropriate it to arm and feed the rank and file. The same traders also tell me there's a lot more pilfered oil than the GAO acknowledges, and that the practice started as soon as Saddam fell. And why would anyone be surprised? Saddam's regime itself survived off stolen oil during the 12-year U.N. embargo...