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...Saviano, is probably the bleakest, least sentimental study of the Mafia in Italian or American film history. In its depiction of the Camorra crime family, there are no good guys, no crusading cops, no mama pleading with her son to stay out of the rackets. There's also no Mr. Big, Dr. No or Don Corleone stroking a house cat and intoning gritty or pearly aphorisms. The movie stays at street level, showing the lower- and middle-rung employees enmeshed in a system they can't escape, the perps or victims of murders dispatched with neither mercy nor regret...
...very productive meeting with Mr. Markopolos, and he presented to us two separate pieces of potentially improper activities," said Kotz. He would not comment on the nature of the information but said the evidence was given directly to Schapiro. There was no comment on what steps she or the agency might take next...
...been imprisoned, humiliated and accused of being a puppet of the West, but I believe he is a Zimbabwean patriot in touch with the vast majority of his people. He has shown he has stamina." - George Bizos, a South African lawyer who was Mr. Tsvangirai's advocate during his treason trial in 2004, on critics who call Tsvangirai too naive or cowardly to address Zimbabwe's political and social ills (International Herald Tribune...
...There were a lot of shenanigans that went on in the synthetic space," says Janet Tavakoli, who is an expert in structure finance and author of the recent book Dear Mr. Buffett. "These bonds were created by financial meth labs. Now the government is going to have to figure out how to take...
...Left on her own, Coraline wanders through the huge old house, now divided into several large apartments, to meet the other residents: Mr. Bobinsky (Ian McShane), an eight-foot-tall blue Russian who runs a circus of more-or-less trained mice; and Miss Spink (Jennifer Saunders) and Miss Forcible (Dawn French), a pair of venerable theatrical troupers endlessly recounting their glory days in the music hall. Coraline also meets a boy her age, Whybe Lovet (Robert Bailey Jr.), the grandson of the grande dame who owns the place, and a talking cat (Keith David) with dark secrets he eventually...