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...make a bid for the nomination. With half a dozen states expected to hold their primaries within a month of the Iowa caucuses, candidates have to be running a national campaign by this fall. That means they need to start lining up donors now who can write the maximum $2,000 checks allowed under the campaign-finance...
...arrested - for the past seven years. "This is a bit too close to home for my liking." "The baseline anxiety level has been rising since 9/11," says Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism expert at Scotland's St. Andrews University. Terrorists, he notes, are "looking for low-tech ways of making maximum mayhem." Substances like ricin - what Ranstorp calls "weapons of mass disruption" - fit the bill. As with the post-Sept. 11 anthrax attacks in the U.S., a small number of deaths can trigger a huge reaction. "Alert, not alarm," was the police message to the public and the health authorities. Although...
...Ingroia have become dependent on untrustworthy witnesses: "These are men who have no problems of conscience. They've committed so many homicides they've lost count." A verdict in the Dell'Utri trial, which began in 1997, is expected by the end of 2003, with the Senator facing a maximum of 12 years. As for Giuffrè, who authorities believe has more than 40 murders under his belt but will likely see several life sentences reduced for his cooperation, the next stop is as a witness in the Mafia-association trial of former seven-time Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti. Giuffr...
Though I like to point fingers at large Western corporations whenever possible, the recent plight of 25 million starving coffee farmers is not the conglomerates’ fault. The crisis is the result of the end of the International Coffee Agreements, which allotted each country a maximum quota of coffee production. When these rules went by the wayside in a 1989 gale of post-Communist love, world coffee production went haywire. Brazil and Vietnam began producing madly, flooding the market with excess coffee. Prices worldwide plummeted, creating the current scenario, where coffee farmers are paid significantly less than the cost...
...million is the maximum in fines that Hughes Electronics and Boeing Satellite Systems face for allegedly selling missile technology to China in violation of U.S. export...