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...company that makes Agassi's. With golf muscling in on the leisure market, racquet sales have been in a decade-long decline. This year sales could climb 5%, which is in some measure attributable to the ability of a Swedish turnaround artist to persuade the Austrian government's tobacco monopoly to sell him a sporting-goods company created by an American entrepreneur...
...That?s right. From Microsoft to Big Tobacco to our very own government, nothing wounds a giant more reliably than some candid internal documents ?- and this case is no different. Some of the uncovered memos attest to Justice?s knowledge that it was breaking the 1945 law; others point even further, to two sets of books: one for the payroll department and another for supervisors, who tallied up overtime hours as a measure of a lawyer?s efforts. The case will be defended by other Justice Department lawyers, lawyers who stand to get paid more if they lose...
...pedantic enthusiasms. "I am a constant source of amusement to him," he says. And occasionally a source of embarrassment. In 1996 Rove dropped his $3,000-a-month consultant contract with the Philip Morris Cos. Inc. because Texas was engaged in a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against the tobacco companies...
...response, Comey and his boss, U.S. Attorney Helen Fahey, launched Project Exile in partnership with Richmond police chief Jerry Oliver and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The new procedure: anytime Richmond police found a gun on a drug dealer, user, convicted felon or suspect in a violent crime, the case would be tried under federal statutes that carry mandatory sentences of at least five years without parole--and longer for repeated or aggravated offenses...
...year's visiting fellows include Morris Baller, a civil rights lawyer and law professor; Robert E. Banks, the director of the legal and advocacy department at Gay Men's Health Crisis; Eileen Brewer, a lawyer for the Cook County Board of Commissions who initiated the county's lawsuit against tobacco manufacturers and Kathryn A. Ellis, a department of education lawyer...