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...lawyer is now negotiating with the government's special office set up to handle compensation for the settlers. The compensation is figured by complicated formulas and turns out to be quite negotiable, depending on how forcefully the lawyer presses the government. Many settlers waited to negotiate, figuring the government would be under pressure to secure deals before the final evacuation begins, though there's no evidence that the latest deals are better. "With broken hearts," the Angels will move into rental accommodation until their house in the new community of Nitzan, north of Ashkelon, will be ready. This could take...
...long-running FBI sting operation investigating whether the Louisiana Democrat pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars of an investor's money in a business deal involving a high-tech company. Jefferson allegedly promised to use his congressional influence to get government contracts for the firm. Jefferson's lawyer told the Washington Post he is confident his client "did not pocket any money...
...search in particular, to a dominant position in consumer retail and commerce. And social networking and the culture of tagging is not without its critics. Eddie Cheng, president of British online yellow pages directory Yell.com, argues that it's much easier to rate a restaurant, say, than a lawyer: "The danger is that 60% of people who record reviews have a negative opinion. That's not great from a service point of view." Still, Yahoo! believes that social-network tools will help grow its search business. "You get better search through people," says Bradley Horowitz, director of technology development...
...workers, grew up in a house without hot water or a telephone. The other is the scion of a rich and powerful political dynasty. But Alberto Gonzales and George W. Bush have joined in a largely successful effort to build a more muscular executive branch. Drawn to the quiet lawyer's up-by-his-bootstraps story, then-Governor Bush persuaded Gonzales to leave his lucrative law practice in Houston and become his general counsel in 1994. Bush later put Gonzales on the Texas Supreme Court, and when Bush moved north, he made Gonzales White House counsel and, earlier this year...
...film). When she has trouble unlocking the door in the attic, she starts to suspect that something is fishy, which leads her down the trail to hoodoo—a cousin of voodoo practiced in Louisiana. And there is the necessary semi-love interest in the form of lawyer Luke, played in true John Grisham style with the twang and the charm of Peter Sarsgaard...