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Those strategies are being shaped absent any real knowledge of what Fitzgerald might do before the grand jury's scheduled dissolution on Oct. 28. "If he played his cards any closer to the vest, they'd be in his underwear," says a lawyer who is a friend of the White House. But Fitzgerald's intentions aren't the only mystery. Another character in the drama remains unnamed: the original source for columnist Robert Novak, who wrote the first piece naming Plame. Fitzgerald, says a lawyer who's involved in the case, "knows who it is--and it's not someone...
...took the company public may be on the hook for shareholder losses. "We have a history of taking forceful action in response to misbehavior," says Alan Hevesi, New York State comptroller, whose retirement system invested $36 million in Refco through Lee and others. Lee declined to comment. Bennett's lawyer, Gary Naftalis, reiterated what he had already said in court: "We think the government jumped...
...Taking the trans fats out of a product without affecting taste is often far more complex and costly than developing a new one from scratch. That's partly why Kraft had to be pushed to speed up its efforts. The nudge came from a lawsuit filed by British-born lawyer and trans-fat crusader Stephen Joseph, founder of BanTransFats.com...
...theory, and the university where [Jeremy] Bentham studied will be an ideal place to work.” Schauer is currently completing a visiting professorship at the University of Chicago law school. Of the 65 previous Eastman fellows, 13 were Nobel Prize winners. Schauer will be the third lawyer to hold the post, along with former U.S. Supreme Court Justice and former HLS professor Felix Frankfurter in 1933-34, and Eugene Rostow, the former dean of Yale Law School, in 1970-72. The Eastman professorship was formed in 1929 in honor of George Eastman, the founder of the Eastman Kodak...
...fears of extremely unthreatened Americans. And producer Jerry Bruckheimer is not a man who is fond of going broke. He nearly singlehandedly made CBS No. 1 with his CSI franchise and its crime-story satellites. His track record in other genres is spotty--this season, the middling WB buddy-lawyer show Just Legal and NBC's Pentagon snooze E-Ring--but in cop procedurals, he has gone five for five. That tingle in your chest when you see Anthony LaPaglia race to find a missing child on Without a Trace? That's Bruckheimer pushing your buttons...