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...Although there have been several attempts to sue American multinationals in relation to human-rights abuses overseas under the 1789 statute, the Unocal case is the first time that a defendant has concluded a settlement under which compensation will be paid. "I'm thrilled with the outcome of this case," said Katherine Redford of Washington D.C.-based law firm EarthRights International, who conceived of the suit after visiting the Thailand?Burma border a decade ago as a law student. "General counsel for corporations around the world will pay considerable attention to this settlement," says Sean Murphy, a professor of international...
...credits include Seinfeld and Murder, She Wrote) flew in from L.A. to raise the profile of the movie even more in the city's schools, churches and senior centers. "Our goal was to see if all of Grand Rapids would love it as much as we did," says Billie Sue Berends, a community college instructor who has seen Nino more than 50 times. Having charmed Grand Rapids citizens, Nino at long last is scheduled to open nationwide, in February. Says co-star Archer: "This is a movie for the people who put Bush back into office." Mantegna's mom Mary...
...From Sue Grafton’s FM is for Fifteen Murders: It was a dark rainy night as I entered the courtyard of Lowell House, a dormitory by the Charles River. I was looking for a girl. I found her—sprawled across some sort of magazine printed on newsprint. She was dead. Dead. And judging by the way the blood was creeping across the pages of the (most amusing) broadsheet, her fifteen minutes had run out very recently indeed...
...Sue Sliwinski
...much as half of its business in the Christmas season. Denmark's Lego says it expects to lose about 3250 million this year as falling sales and prices force it to cut back production. At London megastore Hamleys, Bratz dolls and some electronic games are moving, but buyer Sue Porritt says the market overall "is looking tough." But not all are gloomy. Merchandise featuring jumping mouse Diddl is leaping off the shelves in France and Italy as well as its native Germany, even though the firm behind it, Depesche, does no advertising. And sales at Germany's Playmobil...