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...result is that certain bankruptcy courts see a disproportionate number of cases. According to a database of public-company bankruptcies maintained by LoPucki, from 1980 to 2008, 17% of companies filed in New York City and 34% filed in Wilmington, even though companies were headquartered in New York City only 7% of the time and in Wilmington less than 1% of the time. Executives typically decide where to file on the advice of their legal counsel. The two law firms that GM has hired to advise it on bankruptcy - Weil, Gotshal & Manges and Dewey & LeBoeuf - are both based...
...knew that would be the result, I would've thought about the taxes earlier.' DAVID PATERSON, New York governor, on the conservative icon's threat to skip town...
...brouhaha is the result of a marketing strategy by porn company Digital Playground, which last summer started offering complimentary copies of Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge (a hard-core homage to Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean, with animated skeleton pirates and all) to students on 100 college campuses. Many schools have already screened the film in venues ranging from a dorm room at Southern Connecticut State University to an 850-student audience in December at UCLA, where the film's stars responded to questions and criticism about the porn industry. (See pictures of pinup queen Bettie Page...
...from Hillary Clinton to Joe Biden - Obama has favored civil unions while opposing gay marriage. Although he has promised to work for the repeal of DOMA and to end the ban on gays serving openly in the military, these are not priorities in the Obama White House. As a result, any momentum gay-rights activists may be enjoying now is unlikely to be sustained...
...result, the stigma AIDS carries today in China remains strong - and potentially dangerous. In a 2008 survey by the China AIDS Media Partnership, of the more than 6000 people surveyed, nearly 48% said they wouldn't knowingly eat with an HIV positive person. Thirty percent said HIV positive children should not be allowed to study at the same schools as uninfected children, and 40% said they would not willingly share workspace with a colleague they knew was HIV positive. The government has taken steps to improve these attitudes, including implementing an anti-discrimination law in March 2006, but perceptions like...