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...standards to get a mortgage, the people who greenlight movies are facing more stringent demands from their financiers. "All of the studios, if they want to get a deal done in this environment, will need to better align their interests with investors," says P. John Burke, a film finance lawyer at the firm Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld...
...Wednesdays, 10 p.m. E.T.)--about Nick George (Peter Krause), who becomes in-house lawyer to the rich, tabloid-fodder family the Darlings--started fall 2007 sassy and slick but became increasingly earnest and torpid as it went on. The producers decided, astutely, that it needed to return dirtier and sexier, or there would be no mo' money. The return episode is also funnier and dumber, in the best sense: it's the kind of show in which a jilted wife confronts her politician husband with a golf club in the shower over his tranny lover. Its stripped-from-the-tabloids...
...Massachusetts Democratic primary on Tuesday, though a strong showing by a virtually unknown challenger evidenced the voter frustration that many political analysts have said is a potent political force this election cycle. With half of the precincts reporting, Kerry was leading Edward O’Reilly, a lawyer and former firefighter, by a two-to-one margin. While Kerry carried virtually every city and town in the Commonwealth, O’Reilly ran strong in places such as his hometown of Gloucester, where Kerry won by only a few points. “There are unfinished fights that we must...
...contrast between the two leading candidates seems to offer the voters a clear choice: Livni, 50, is an elegant but often humorless lawyer who did a brief stint in Europe as a Mossad agent. She is committed to seeking peace with the Palestinians, based on a two-state solution, and she is admired by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, among others, for her level-headedness and tenacity. A mother of three who lives in a modest Tel Aviv apartment, Livni's image as "Mrs. Clean" resonates with Israelis tired of the sleaze associated with Olmert, the target of long...
...thought to be the first couple to marry in the new Israeli state in 1948. Livni served as a lieutenant in the Israeli army and later joined Mossad, working for the intelligence service for several years in the early '80s. She left the service to became a real estate lawyer before dipping into politics in 1999. Following her election to the Knesset, she became a protege of Ariel Sharon, and gained a reputation for being modest and humorless - but always on the straight and narrow. She's often referred to as "Israel's Mrs. Clean...