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...something quite different happened. Standing in front of the club the following day, Jackson cautioned against a "rush to find a culprit" and deflected the focus of attention from the club owner onto the city. "The fact is, safety codes were not enforced, and it's the job of inspectors and officials to do just that," he said. Coming from a civil rights advocate with a long record of giving voice to the voiceless, Jackson's temperate response to the E2 disaster seemed curious, to say the least. The E2 investigation is beginning to show that the fault...
...also revealed that Jackson is more closely involved with the club than he had disclosed when he spoke in front of E2 last week. In 2002, it turns out, Jackson wrote a letter to the police chief and one to a local alderman on behalf of the club owner, urging that E2 be allowed to remain open despite its transgressions. E2's owner, Dwain Kyles, has been friends with Jackson since Kyles was a child. And Kyles is, like Jackson, a bona fide member of the black political establishment. His father Samuel (Billy) Kyles was a close friend of Martin...
...chefs, Loiseau found he had to peddle his personality in order to afford to maintain three-star luxury. He became a TV personality and started selling a line of soups, champagne and even fennel-scented perfume. "Personally, I would not want two stars, let alone three," says Leslie Caron, owner of another Burgundy restaurant and the actress in the movies Gigi and Chocolat. Caron, who knew Loiseau, believes the downturn in the economy and the looming war in Iraq must have driven him to despair. But money did not kill Loiseau, insists Bernard Fabre, his financial director. "All of that...
Since uranium was discovered at McArthur River in 1988, its corporate owner, Cameco, based in Saskatoon, Sask., has spent $277 million to develop it. Considering that the price of uranium has languished below the cost of production for most of the intervening years, Cameco's investment might seem like a fool's wager--until you look at what is happening in the battered market for U3O8, the raw uranium that's refined and enriched for use in nuclear reactors...
...propaganda classics broadcast on some 50 cable channels run mostly by the country's central and provincial governments. Nor is it the warmed-over Western cartoons and overseas dramas that are dubbed into Mandarin and recycled on the mainland by News Corp.'s main foreign competitor, AOL Time Warner (owner of TIME...