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...thought about what had worked before in Utah. I gently asked festival programmer Trevor Groth what the punishment was for bribing judges. "Bribery doesn't happen enough in the film-festival circuit. I've been waiting for it for years," he said. So I asked talented, handsome actor Lou Taylor Pucci--one of three shorts judges--whether he'd throw his vote my way if I mentioned his name in TIME and called him talented and handsome. "Oh, dude, I would totally not do that. Ever. Ever," he said. I really wish Thornton had been on the jury. I think...
...chain of shops in the U.K., approached 10 Lords for help amending business-rates legislation. Three Conservative peers, a Liberal Democrat, an Ulster Unionist and a Labour peer ignored the request or refused to help. But The Sunday Times says four Labour Lords - Lewis Moonie, Peter Snape, Thomas Taylor and Peter Truscott - agreed to help amend the bill in exchange for retainers. Following those allegations, London's Independent newspaper reported that peers are currently being paid to advise more than 200 companies and pressure groups, and The Sunday Telegraph found examples of peers who have officially registered their outside interests...
...meeting people, talking with people to facilitate the amendment and making sure the thing is granted," he says. "I think the other thing is identifying. . .who can be approached to put forward amendments at various stages and maybe other bodies to contact." In an audio clip, his colleague Lord Taylor tells an undercover reporter that "some companies that I work with would pay me ?100,000 a year" to facilitate meetings with decision-makers. When questioned by the reporter about that fee, Taylor says: "That's cheap for what I do for them. . .I am not exaggerating. It's whether...
...last October after investors ousted former owner David A. Zebny '84, plan to eventually close all four entities owned by the Z Restaurant Group—which has two other locations in Massachusetts and one in California—having deemed it no longer profitable, said Lynne A. Taylor, an independent consultant for the company. According to Taylor, the Harvard Square restaurant "was hanging by a thread," with its sales unable to sustain its operating expenses, particularly in the face of an economic downturn. She said that investors felt that Zebny "badly mismanaged" the businesses. "Everybody who had invested...
RICHARD F. TAYLOR...