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Osama bin Laden ASSUMED ALIVE --Pakistani and Afghan intelligence reports suggest the terror master is still living, sneaking from one mountain hideout to another along the two countries' common border. Bin Laden and his entourage are said to be traveling by foot and horseback under cloud cover, to avoid detection by surveillance aircraft...
...special master of the Federal Government's September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, Feinberg has to put a price on lost life. It may be a heartrending calculus, but it is, in the end, just calculus. Lawyers and actuaries worked out payment structures for catastrophic death decades ago, and--with a few modifications for cost of living, income and dependents--anyone can discover his or her approximate postmortem value with a 10- second glance at a statistical chart. Feinberg's challenge is to convince the 9/11 families that even though the country has valorized their husbands, sisters, sons and mothers because...
...mint has been made. The Feinberg Group, with offices in New York City and Washington, is one of the top mediation practices in the country, and Feinberg has been known to receive seven-figure fees for his expertise. When Attorney General John Ashcroft asked him to be the special master of the compensation fund in December, Feinberg accepted pro bono...
...news that Feinberg was human spread quickly via e-mail among the families, and, coincidence or not, the relationship between the special master and those he serves has been smoother since. "The families still ask the same demanding questions," says Stephen Push, whose wife died on Flight 77 when it crashed into the Pentagon. "But he's getting better at fielding them. It takes a lot of sensitivity to deal with people who are grieving as much as we are, and he's improving...
...absence of labor union restrictions mean a day of shooting in Beijing costs as little as half of what it would cost in Hollywood. Equally critical, choosing to work in China made it easier?financially and logistically?to assemble the region's finest martial artists. Yuen Wo-ping?a master known to international audiences for his wire work on recent martial arts blockbusters Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Matrix, was hired to choreograph the fight scenes, reviving material that appeared on his r?sum? 20 years ago. Venerable Japanese screen idol Sonny Chiba is both cast member and combat coach...