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...state-provided office, has represented hundreds of victims in trials - over 200 in the Paris Métro case alone. It's party to proceedings arising from the Karachi bombing last May, and the Sept. 11 attacks, which killed five French citizens. SOS Attentats is also party to a suit filed last month in a Washington, D.C. federal court against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi for his role in a 1989 French airline bombing, for which six Libyans have already been convicted - in absentia - by a French court. Because French law doesn't allow sitting foreign leaders to be cited...
...counterpart HVB, Germany's second-largest bank and Europe's largest lender, also posted a third-quarter loss - of j447 million, compared to a j94 million profit for the same period last year. Commerzbank and Dresdner Bank, a unit of insurance giant Allianz since 2001, look set to follow suit when they publish third-quarter results later this month. Why, in a country once renowned for its scrupulous financial management, are so many banks doing so poorly? The answer is simple: bad debts, a knock-on effect from Germany's soaring bankruptcy rate. At Deutsche, provisions for loan write-offs...
...stands slightly hunched over the pulpit, cloaked in his trademark three-piece black suit, his wide eyes staring out at the audience. His arms sweep through the air, reinforcing each word that he utters, keeping time with the cadence of his speech. Though he’s preaching in a church, on a Sunday afternoon, this man is no minister. His name is Cornel West...
...hearing last week, a judge indicated he was likely to send the key aspects of the government’s suit to a jury...
...Clause 2. Though the public wasn’t exactly picketing for a sequel to the 1994 original, the sparkly $145 million that the film cashed in at the U.S. box office was enough for our friends at Disney to ask funnyman Tim Allen to put on his fat suit once again. But as Santa rushes to save Christmas once again, the plot of The Santa Clause 2 remains as predictable as an episode of “Home Improvement...