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...Senate and the House but will have to return to both chambers for final votes once the two versions are reconciled. The only way to avoid another Senate vote, party strategists say, would be for the House to pass the exact version that the Senate approved in December, thus sending the bill directly to Obama...
...assembling in tuxedos and evening dresses, you know it must be an award show of dubious provenance but free television exposure. George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Sandra Bullock, king-of-the-movie-world James Cameron: if you offer them the chance to win a prize on TV, they will come. Thus on Friday the Broadcast Film Critics Association presented its star-clogged Critics Choice Awards, hosted by Broadway and prime-time cutie Kristin Chenoweth. And Sunday night found the Hollywood Foreign Press Association rounding up all the usual suspects, plus famous folks not up for anything - Mel Gibson, Robert De Niro...
...unclear if Sindiswa contracted HIV before or after she was sold, but some of her clients didn't use condoms. She was diagnosed with the virus only a week before I met her. When she was too sick to stand and thus useless as a slave, Jude had thrown her onto the street. Nurses expected her to die within days...
...feds thus far have only been able to recover assets valued at about a tenth of the Ponzi scheme's take. But Rothstein's alleged investor victims are hoping his guilty plea will mean improved chances of retrieving more of their lost money. "It helps because it means he can testify in civil trials now, and he's said he wants to help make things right," says Scherer. He has filed suit on behalf of victims against Rothstein and Toronto Dominion Bank, which handled the accounts Rothstein used to conduct the alleged Ponzi scheme. (TD Bank insists it exercised proper...
...stronger," she says. Eventually, the evolutionary process will catch up, as new seedlings without the frost response take over. "In principle, however," says Kuparinen, "this process will take a long time. The rate of evolution is slower than the rate at which climate will change." The forests would thus get no benefit, remaining stunted until seedlings without early dormancy genes can take root and take over...