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...this ruling holds, journalists will not be able to solicit information from confidential sources, particularly government sources, without the threat of imprisonment lingering over their brows. While they stand strong now, Cooper and Miller might not have done any research at all if they had known what a mess they were getting into. Even if a few journalists were still brave enough to take the risk and seek out confidential sources, far fewer government officials would give information if they suspected that only the personal heroism of the reporter lay between themselves and retaliation. We encourage the reader to imagine...
...Japanese private-equity fund Phoenix Capital, have begun selling off their stakes or announced that they plan to do so soon, leaving questions about M.M.C.'s survival. Japanese sales dropped 40% in 2004, with $2.2 billion in losses in the first nine months of this fiscal year. Into this mess steps Nishioka, also chairman of M.M.C.'s onetime parent (and still major shareholder), industrial-equipment maker Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. He has orchestrated a $5.2 billion cash infusion and announced a restructuring and cost-cutting plan. A similar $4.7 billion bailout last year was billed as M.M.C.'s "last chance...
...Munaim said Wednesday that the Committee Fund—which pays for activities hosted by the UC’s Campus Life Committee (CLC) including Movie Nights and shuttle service—was “in a bit of a mess...
...Port Pirie, South Australia, and another volunteer from Byron Bay, on the north coast of New South Wales, spent more than 130 hours collecting evidence that would eventually verify his claims. "The people who succeed are those who have Australian people going in there and helping them untangle the mess," says Rossell...
...million bank robbery in Belfast. Finally, last week, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart, Bertie Ahern, said further progress would be impossible until the I.R.A. winds up its activities - and the group responded with an angry statement saying Blair and Ahern were "making a mess of the peace process. Do not underestimate the seriousness of the situation." There's no sign the I.R.A. is planning to return to war, but everyone involved in negotiations accepted the crisis could get worse. "These are very dangerous times," Martin Ferris, a former I.R.A. gunrunner who sits in the Irish parliament...