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...similar claim on behalf of four South African families. Thandi Shezi, a Khulumani project officer, says compensation should run into billions of dollars. The companies call the suits "baseless" and will fight to dismiss them. "You can't hold international investors responsible for the actions of governments," says Monika Dunant, a spokeswoman for Zurich-based bank UBS Group, named in both suits. But South African activists point to successful cases against Swiss banks that held onto money deposited by Holocaust victims, and companies in Nazi Germany that benefitted from forced labor. "If they want to play the international game," says...
...would say it’s pretty chaotic,” said Monika LaNuez ’03, an employee of Widener’s stacks division. “People have all these questions that I can’t answer, which is pretty ridiculous since I’ve been here for over a year. I feel just as confused as a lot of the patrons...
Lingman seemed to tire during the second set, chasing down ball after ball as Pepperdine’s Monika Horvath tried to take control of the match, but Lingman turned the tables in the third. The freshman found her second wind and battled back from a 5-6 hole, winning the vital game on her serve at love. Lingman then won the first four points of the tiebreaker and held on for a 6-2, 1-6, 7-6 (7-5) victory to give Harvard its first win in its last California match...
Cool & Crazy has already mightily impressed the Swedes, who can be dismissive about anything Norwegian. "There is a lot of humor and a lot of love in the movie," says Monika Tunbäck-Hanson, chairwoman of the Gothenberg Film Festival jury that named Cool & Crazy last year's best Nordic film. "For city people," she adds, "it's an eye-opener to see humble people expressing their deepest thoughts so fluently. And in such a landscape...
...terrorism seems to have taken on a new prominence simply because it has now hit the world's superpower. "When the E.U. declared that every member nation would honor three minutes of silence for the victims of Sept. 11, we all thought that was too much," says Stockholm resident Monika Ericson. "Normally we do just one minute and we feel this was imposed on us because it was America instead of Rwanda or Bosnia...