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The Cleveland strike force, composed of investigators from both the Justice and Labor departments, had compiled a 100-page memo recommending that a grand jury be urged to indict Presser for allegedly putting "ghost workers" on the Local 507 payroll. The prosecutors had won convictions of or guilty pleas from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of Danger: A Teamsters probe is dropped | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

DIED. FRED KOREMATSU, 86, Japanese American whose refusal to report to an internment center became a haunting symbol of civil rights repression during World War II; of a respiratory illness; in Larkspur, Calif. In May 1942, the Oakland, Calif., welder resisted pleas from compliant friends and declined to be sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 11, 2005 | 4/3/2005 | See Source »

When the producers announced on March 25 that they planned to cancel the Broadway revival of Sweet Charity, its star, CHRISTINA APPLEGATE, put her foot down--gingerly. "There was a huge, resounding no in me," says the Anchorman actress, who broke her right foot in a performance in Chicago last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Christina Made the Case for Charity | 4/3/2005 | See Source »

As is true of Mogwai’s entire discography, vocals are scarce. Other than the ghostly intonations of the opener “Hunted By A Freak” and the passive pleas floating along on “Cody,” the songs here are made up...

Author: By Amos Barshad, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CD OF THE WEEK: Government Comissions | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

In the village of Zivu, nearly everybody has turned out. Several hundred men and women, some carrying babies or minding children, many shading themselves under brightly colored umbrellas, are ranged across a grassy field. Eight people wearing sashes striped in yellow, blue and green - the national colors of Rwanda - sit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Open Court | 3/13/2005 | See Source »

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