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Michael Friedman, who retired last month as the Connecticut-based company's president, lawyer Howard Udell and former chief medical officer Dr. Paul Goldenheim had pleaded guilty in May, in return for accepting the fine. The surprise from today's ruling was the inclusion of the community service penalty - each man will have to serve his 400 hours working in drug abuse prevention or treatment, which would amount two and a half months of 40-hour work weeks spent fulfilling the sentence...
...left since arriving in Beijing on July 6. Yuan, 30, a forthright homemaker from the coastal province of Shandong, won't venture out for fear of being kidnapped. As paranoid as that might sound, in Yuan's case it is a well-founded concern. Her husband, Chen Guangcheng, a lawyer and activist, was himself kidnapped by policemen from his native Shandong province when he visited Beijing in June of 2005. Chen, who has been blind since birth, is now serving a four-year prison term in Shandong, having incurred the wrath of local authorities by publicizing the plight of women...
...even mind that these players discovered and exploited a loophole to reduce their tax bills. No one is under any moral obligation to pay more taxes than he or she legally owes. (And I hope the lawyer or accountant who figured out how Blackstone could call some of its income a capital gain when calculating its taxes and then relabel the same pile of dough as ordinary income when computing its deductions, as reported last week in the New York Times, got a big, big bonus.) For years, these folks got away with murder. Congratulations. But then, when the sheer...
...Fourth of July reception at the palatial Rome residence of Francis Rooney, the American ambassador to the Holy See. The new symbol of the crisis is undoubtedly the Archbishop of Los Angeles, Cardinal Roger Mahony, whose agreement to the enormous settlement saves him from testifying in court. An Archdiocese lawyer told reporters that Mahony had made several trips to Rome in recent weeks to get the Vatican's support for the deal. The L.A. archdiocese will sell off some of its prized real estate and take out loans to help pay the settlement...
...twentysomething woman was living not with a husband, but with a roommate. Not only that, she would often come home later - sometimes close to midnight! - and was known to have attended the occasional jazz concert. "Someone or other's always watching," says Gowda, now 35, a women's rights lawyer, and still single. "The neighbors don't really give a damn about a woman in an abusive marriage where the husband beats her up. But the minute you're single you attract attention...