Word: libeling
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...defiant Sevran drew only limited fire for his comments, and a public rebuke from his public television employer - though not the cancellation of his Sunday program that many demanded. Appalled at the light punishment, the government of Niger (itself a victim of recent famines) announced it would file libel charges against Sevran in French courts...
...portrayed as cowardly and snobbish. ("You find my pain funny?" asks Toad of a French creature called Le Frog, voiced by Jean Reno. Le Frog replies, "I find everyone's pain funny but my own. I'm French.") Naturellement, the movie is awash in rodent jokes, from an amusing libel on the Pied Piper to the crucial moment when Roddy implores Rita to "Nibble for your life...
...Franco-Belgian utility Suez with Gaz de France (GDF) by slashing the French state's 80% share in GDF. "Even the ump deputies are now acting like the opposition," says political scientist Dominique Reynié of Sciences Po. Adding to the turbulence, last week Villepin sued three authors for libel over claims linked to the murky Clearstream affair, then let his frustration boil over in the face of charges that he was too eager to protect embattled EADS co-ceo Noël Forgeard in the face of expensive Airbus production delays and an investigation into the propriety of stock...
...managing editor, as do the chairs of Arts, Sports, and Fifteen Minutes. The managing editor reports to the president. In contrast, however, the chairs of the editorial board report directly to the president. Except for the daily proofer who proofreads the editorial page and checks it for libel the night before publication, the news board has no involvement whatsoever in the production of The Crimson’s editorial positions...
FILED SUIT. BARRY BONDS, 41, slugger for the San Francisco Giants; against the authors and publishers of Game of Shadows, which claims Bonds took steroids for at least five seasons; in San Francisco. Instead of suing for libel, his lawyers seek to block authors Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams from profiting, arguing they "illegally obtained" the grand-jury testimony on which the book relies. Judge James Warren said Bonds was unlikely to prevail and denied his lawyers' request for a temporary restraining order on the book's profits...