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...constitute a long-term threat to the company's future - especially if the A380 proves popular with airlines. However, according to Anne Maréchal, a former official with Paris's stock market now working with law firm DLA Piper, if convictions for insider trading have been very rare in France until now, there's reason to believe some may result in the EADS case. "The AMF isn't required to file a report with prosecutors unless it has sufficient evidence of serious legal infraction, which appears to have been its motivation in this instance," Maréchal explains. "Given...
...judge, L.A. Superior Court Commissioner Scott Gordon, didn't make public his reasons for separating Spears from her sons Monday, but family law experts say such a dramatic move is rare. "A change of custody is very difficult," says Muriel Savikas, a divorce mediator and child psychologist in Manhattan Beach, Calif. "The courts don't normally do that without some real concerns about safety...
...looked up from my own pre-dinner brew. A rare moment of clarity for this Psychology concentrator whose blood was probably bluer than his blazer...
Historically, Harvard has been reluctant to let human rights considerations affect its investment decisions. But on rare occasions, the University has dropped its holdings in firms that have close ties to particularly reprehensible regimes. In response to the Darfur genocide, Harvard sold its stake in the oil company PetroChina in 2005. The Harvard Corporation, the school’s seven-member senior governing body, cited a “unique pattern of circumstances relating PetroChina to the crisis in Sudan”: oil revenues from a PetroChina-backed project have funded Sudanese weapons purchases, enabling the regime to slaughter innocent...
...Porn is plentiful, so why are scenes depicting sexuality with emotion so rare in films...