Word: leopold
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...visa, which states in bright red letters, "Warning: a non immigrant who accepts unauthorized employment is subject to deportation." It is possible Rachel and her comrades discovered the jobs via a newspaper ad that targeted young Israelis and promised to expedite legal papers in return for mall training. David Leopold, a lawyer handling the Israelis' case, says that if his clients were working, they didn't know employment was against...
...passage for A-list actors eager to prove range: the period role. After all, it's easy to look like a leading man while firing an M-16; less so while wearing tights. Aussie hunk HUGH JACKMAN'S Danskin moment arrives in the upcoming contempo-period piece hybrid, Kate & Leopold. In the film, Jackman portrays a 19th century English duke transported to the 21st century who--what else?--grows smitten with a Manhattan corporate climber (MEG RYAN). Having depicted high-testosterone men in X-Men and Swordfish, he says the role "was a big challenge, though I have quite...
...needs the Congo?" some Westerners are tempted to ask as the U.N. prepares to dispatch 5,000 troops to monitor yet another fragile cease-fire in what appears to be an endless regional war. The answer, is just about everyone. Ever since Belgium's King Leopold colonized it as his personal commercial property in 1885, the Congo has fascinated the industrialized world - both with its treasures, and with the boundless venality of those who have pursued them...
...Adam Hochschild's brilliant and damning "King Leopold's Ghost" describes the early colonization and exploitation of the Congo. Long before Sierra Leone, Belgium's colonial army encouraged the amputation of body parts as proof that native soldiers had actually killed their enemies. Former Financial Times correspondent Michela Wrong's "In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz" details Joseph Desire Mobutu's rise to power and his descent into paranoia, isolation and self destruction. Mobutu's Congo, Wrong writes, was a modern-day kleptocracy - a nation state that institutionalized theft...
...DIED. LEOPOLD PAGE, 87, Holocaust survivor whose zeal and persistence led to the publication (and, eventually, the film version) of Schindler's List; in Los Angeles. Polish-born Page survived World War II after being rescued from a concentration camp in 1944 when he was included in the list of 1,200 Jews that Oskar Schindler employed in his munitions factory. Owner of a leather goods shop in Beverly Hills after the war, Page spent 40 years badgering writers to take up Schindler's story, finally succeeding when Australian author Thomas Keneally came into the store to buy a briefcase...