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...rights group EarthRights International brought Unocal to federal court in Los Angeles on behalf of Burmese villagers suffering from the alleged violations during pipeline construction, which ended in 1998. The suit, Doe v. Unocal, was filed under the Alien Tort Claims Act, a 1789 law that allows aliens to sue in U.S. courts for violations of international law. The group pursued a separate suit in California state court...
...years ago: "My friends think we're out here with Rolls-Royces in the parking lot, but it's closer to rodeo. When you get right down to it, what's so elite about being knee-deep in horse dung?" --By Jamie Murphy. Reported by Barbara Kraft/Los Angeles and Sue Raffety/New York, with other bureaus
...Here's the original cast of characters. 6 to 9 A.M, "Morning Sedition": the Jewish comic (Maron), the thoughtful black (Mark Riley), the BBC-sounding British woman (Sue Endicott). 9 A.M. to noon, "Unfiltered": the woman comic (Lizz Winstead, who was also he network's program director), the elder statesman of black rap (Chuck D.), the Jewish lesbian with some radio experience (Rachel Maddow). Noon to 3, "The O'Franken Factor": Franken and NPR refugee Catherine Lanpher. 3 to 7 P.M.: Randi Rhodes ("I'm Jewish, I'm from Brooklyn"), who had built strong ratings in South Florida...
...communist regime. Yet according to StB records, Sokol agreed to collaborate with that regime just as it was collapsing in 1989. Sokol says his registration as "agent" was forged and denies informing on his peers. "I sleep well," he told TIME. "My conscience is clear." Sokol is planning to sue to clear his name. The reliability of the StB records has been found wanting in the past. In the neighboring Czech Republic, where StB files were first officially released in 1996, around 800 people have so far challenged the accuracy of their records in the courts, and 70% have succeeded...
...Sue Monk Kidd's first novel was a miraculous anomaly. A wise, tender little coming-of-age tale about a Southern girl finding herself, The Secret Life of Bees unexpectedly found itself on the best-seller lists and went on to sell 31/2 million copies. The heroine of Kidd's second novel, The Mermaid Chair (Viking; 335 pages), has already come of age, some time ago in fact. But her problems are just getting started...