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...Parmalat founder Calisto Tanzi, former finance director Fausto Tonna and 27 other people last week, the day before the expiration date to qualify for fast-track court proceedings in the €14 billion collapse of the Italian dairy-and-food giant. The executives are accused of an elaborate fraud scheme, including falsifying balance sheets and misleading investors. The Italian affiliates...
First semester exams would conclude before winter break and January would be kept open for a potential “alternative term” under the scheme recommended by a University-wide committee on calendar reform...
Ayatullah Sistani first insisted on a speeded-up timetable for elections. Then in December he brushed aside Bremer's scheme to choose interim rulers through a complicated U.S.-run caucus system and demanded immediate elections. Shi'ites, constituting 60% of the population, expect to dominate any vote. After rugged haggling that brought in the U.N. as an intermediary, the U.S. agreed that elections projected for late 2005 would be pushed forward...
...levels crept up in 2001 for the second straight year, and most member states are forecast to miss the Kyoto targets. "With current trends, we could not reach our goals," says a Commission source. "More efforts are needed." Focus now falls on the E.U.'s internal emissions trading scheme - the first of its kind in the world - planned for launch next year. Under the system, governments will grant more than 12,000 industrial sites an emissions allowance. If a company squeezes its levels under the limit, it can sell its remaining allowance to a firm that's unable to honor...
After a few quick hits of the Boston area bar scene, Scott and partner Curtis, played by up and comer Derek Luke, know that something is up. And by something, I mean the need to go undercover in a scheme that is like The Shield meets The A-Team in glorious wide-screen. At about which point, the plot stops making sense...