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...Harvard lawyer also suggested to the jury that Goodwin’s contention that she was asked to leave Widener “through the back door” by an interviewer was a fabrication...
...with representatives from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Justice Department and the New York attorney general's office. Greenberg is set to be deposed the next day. "The stakes are high for anyone even superficially attached to the AIG transactions," says Christopher Bebel, a Houston securities lawyer and former federal prosecutor. "This is how things are today. It's hardball." After all, prosecutors aggressively hunted down the banks that devised the complex partnerships that helped Enron hide its financial deterioration just before it collapsed...
...Robert A. Skinner of Ropes & Gray, a lawyer representing Harvard in the dispute with Surgut, said last week that the University is the only shareholder involved at the moment...
...common area where other passengers put their luggage." Political will and injections of funding could smooth out most problems with public transport. Europe's rich heritage of old buildings throws up knottier problems. A survey last year by the office of Rome city councillor Ileana Argentin, 40, a lawyer with the genetic disease spinal amyotrophy, found that only 20% of public buildings in the city were fully accessible; wheelchair users could enter some areas in a further 60%, and 20% were completely blocked to them. Argentin understands the arguments for conservation - "Imagine if I tried to make the Spanish steps...
...Banna loved America. During his nearly two years in the U.S., al-Banna, a lawyer by training, made a living as a factory worker, a shuttle-bus driver and a pizza tosser. He went to the World Trade Center and the Golden Gate Bridge, grew his hair long and listened to Nirvana. He told his family back in Jordan about the honesty and kindness of Americans. "They respect anybody who is sincere," he told his father. He said he had planned to marry an American woman until her parents demanded that the wedding take place in a Christian church...