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...trial for allegedly lying to the feds about why she dumped stock of biotech firm ImClone Systems in late 2001. When the two were staying at a luxury resort in Mexico in the days after Stewart sold her shares, Pasternak testified, Stewart confided that she had got rid of them because she knew that ImClone CEO Sam Waksal, their mutual friend, and his daughters had tried to dump their stock. "Isn't it nice to have brokers who tell you those things?" Stewart said, according to Pasternak. Another memorable quote from a memorable trial--until Pasternak, under cross-examination...
...Port-au-Prince airport and presidential palace, and national security consists of a few hundred guerrillas-along with a few thousand cops who belong to one of the Caribbean?s most threadbare police forces. ?This is not the way things were supposed to be once we were rid of Aristide,? said businessman Jean Robert, 57, as he helped clean up the police station looted by mobs in the capital?s Petion Ville district. ?I could go back and live in the U.S., but I?m staying, because we?ve got to change the way things are done here...
...earlier Jesus movies, I needed a good laugh. But I got hardly a giggle from "JCVH," the first kungfu-lesbian-horror-Mexican-wrestling musical comedy. (Could there be a second?) The premise, from screenwriter Ian Driscoll, is piquant: Jesus H. Christ joins forces with a priest to rid Ottawa of a vampire coven. He's an activist Savior ("If I'm not back in five minutes, call the Pope") who kicks beaucoup d'ass. He's closer to a standard Mel Gibson hero than to the hero of the new Mel Gibson movie. But the comedy is slack, the song...
...budget co-productions to digital projection. After investing some $24 million in 20 films between 2000 and 2003, it saw them bring in $230 million at the box office. It could be a while, though, before Britain enjoys such dynamic numbers again. In February, the Inland Revenue got rid of a tax break that gave relief to film investors - who spent over $2 billion in the country last year - effectively cutting off millions in funding for current projects...
...spend soft money, just like political parties, political action committees and other fundraising organizations could before the BCRA. So these 527s—set up in response to the prohibitions of the soft-money ban—can finance the same issue ads the BCRA was meant to get rid...