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MICHAEL CLAYTON George Clooney lends his old-time movie-star aura to the role of a "fixer" getting clients out of trouble in a large law firm. Tom Wilkinson and Tilda Swinton co-star in this exposé of corporate chicanery...
...white manager, a Mr. Bolton, who took him on. A grateful Bolton began to sell offcuts and soiled cloth to Maponya, who set up his own tailor and sold clothing on credit. The authorities closed that business - despite the best efforts of South Africa's first black law firm, established by Mandela and Oliver Tambo - but not before Maponya had built enough capital to set up a dairy in Soweto...
...recording of a conversation between Lt. Col. Jordan, 51, and two Army investigators in Iraq on Sept. 18, 2004, Jordan is heard informally discussing what happened at Abu Ghraib and referring repeatedly to the contracting firm CACI, the supervisors it employed, and specifically to Steven Stefanowicz, who was known as "Big Steve" around Abu Ghraib, as well as another civilian employee. The investigators were working at the time on behalf of soldiers who later became criminal defendants in the Abu Ghraib proceedings. One of the investigators told TIME that the conversation took place at Jordan's initiative...
...Visions of a triumphant return for Allawi, however, are far-fetched. Allawi, who now spends most of his time outside Iraq, has hired the D.C.-based Republican lobbying firm Barbour Griffith & Rogers to help make his case. Some of his new advisers are former members of the Bush Administration, including Robert Blackwill, a former deputy national security adviser, who was involved in putting together the interim government that Allawi headed...
...pressured India into voting against Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) meeting last year. In the name of sovereignty, they want to end talks with the IAEA and the Nuclear Suppliers Group that would finalize the deal. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's reaction was a firm no. "Our government is committed to the development of nuclear energy," he insisted. The deal is especially crucial, the government says, because India's existing reactors are low on fuel and supplies. The standoff could force an early election, and even if it doesn't, India could wind up with a lame...