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...amicus" attorneys - friends of the court - for Milosevic, to challenge evidence and offer exculpatory facts, even if he won't. If he tries to put NATO on trial as an unlawful aggressor by calling world leaders as witnesses, they would likely refuse to appear. Only the judges could legally summon them...
...where Serbs have violently resisted efforts by the U.N. to return Albanians and impose "multiethnic" rule. At the first sign of an Albanian intruder, or an effort by the U.N. to return refugees, self-appointed vigilantes known as bridge watchers use radios, mobile phones and even car horns to summon hundreds of supporters within minutes. At one clash last year, Agim Ibrahimi, 42, lost his 17-year-old son when someone from the Serb side lobbed a grenade. KFOR estimates there are around 300 bridge watchers, while human-rights workers say ex-police and convicts have joined their ranks...
MANAGED EARNINGS Critics of Tyco, which has bought hundreds of companies over the years, charge that it inflates write-downs for the costs of its acquisitions, in effect creating stored earnings it can summon at will to pump up quarterly results in a way that makes earnings growth appear to be the result of expanding sales or higher margins. These allegations are "totally inaccurate," Kozlowski says. But those denials aren't persuasive to David Tice, who runs the Prudent Bear Fund and practices short selling, a technique that bets on a stock to fall. He has sold Tyco stock short...
...Democrats contemplating a look into Rove's relationship with the company. Though he has never worked for Enron and the shares he owned were bought out of his own pocket, last week's disclosure that Rove recommended Reed, who was hired by the company, may move congressional Democrats to summon him for testimony...
...fussy or petulant or spoiled. Though he lives across the country from me, I receive regular updates and photos, and he likes all the things that boys his age want to play with. Shopping for him should be easy, but I find it hard to summon up any enthusiasm, because in all the years I've given him presents, he has never once sent me a thank-you note...