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...Lies! A bunch of outright lies!" Uzan says of the Motorola complaint, which among other things charges the family with using libel and extortion to intimidate its enemies. Judge Rakoff, he claims, is anti-Turkish. "He is biased against Turkey, against the Turkish people." As for the High Court judge in the U.K. who slapped Uzan family members with a 15-month jail term for contempt of court and a worldwide freeze on assets, he "thinks he rules the world." The whole Motorola-Nokia lawsuit is merely a "business dispute between one company and another" and should be dealt with...
...become stark. Nevertheless, Blair let Hoon swing in the wind. "I did not authorize the leaking of the name of David Kelly," Blair told reporters. "Emphatically not." Campbell is the government's other big endangered beast. His fists-first rebuttal of Gilligan may have been justified by the blood libel he thought Gilligan had perpetrated, but it also gave his many critics a weapon to use against him. Campbell told Blair he would quit after senior judge Lord Hutton completes his inquiry into Kelly's death, expected in the fall. On his vacation, starting this week, he will "consider...
Between 1984 and 1987, Okhotin says—during which time he and his family were still living in Russia—his father, Vladimir Okhotin, was detained by Soviet authorities for his activities as a Baptist minister, which were seen as “libel against the state...
...Although such revelations, if true, might seem innocuous to a casual observer, they are heretical to Sugihara's staunchest defenders and have triggered a ferocious legal and rhetorical response. In August, a libel suit for some $83,000 was filed in Tokyo against Levine's Japanese publisher, claiming that the book is a farrago of lies designed to discredit Sugihara and his memory. Levine calls the accusation preposterous, telling TIME that his real intention was to "make well-known the glorious meaning of Sugihara." A new round of hearings is set to begin this month...
...addition to seminars on libel and Crimson history, add one more mandatory meeting for compers where they learn to play Boggle...