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...Kismet! In 2005 a match was made and, after a courtesy call to the widow of old Mr. Patterson and a first payment to Giuliani estimated at $1 million to $1.5 million, the firm was renamed Bracewell & Giuliani. The former mayor began recruiting lawyers and drumming up business in his old stamping grounds...
Meanwhile, the U.S. is starting to investigate the company. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform invited Helvenston, Batalona's daughter Crystal, Teague's widow Rhonda and Zovko's mother Donna to testify in February. The issues of negligence were raised at the emotional hearing, but so were more technical violations. There is, for example, the question of whether the chain of subcontractors that led to Blackwater on that day was even authorized to hire private security. Under logcap, the contracting program that provides private logistical support to the U.S. military in Kuwait and Iraq, all security was supposed...
Barros was buried at the weekend in his mountaintop village of Houba, 100 km southeast of Dili. More than 500 people filed into his plain farm cottage to view Barros' body as it lay in an open coffin beneath photographs of him and Reinado. Barros' distraught widow wants the East Timorese and Australian governments to pay for her three children's education. Midway through the funeral, an ISF helicopter flew slowly overhead. Local youths called out, "F__k off, Aussie," but the majority of mourners said they did not hold Australia responsible for Barros' death. Some, however, said...
DIED. Anna Nicole Smith, 39, former Playboy model, widow of an octogenarian tycoon, mother of a newborn, and tabloid celebrity; of unknown causes, after collapsing in her hotel room in Hollywood, Fla. (see page...
...Another Freudian aspect: Hannibal, when he comes to Paris from Lithuania, stays with his uncle's widow, the ravishing Lady Murasaki (Gong Li). It seems that the sexuality she awakens in him also helps trigger his homicidal impulses. He commits a murder to satisfy her besmirched honor; he sees his crime as an act of chivalric protectiveness that will endear him to lovely Lady M., and might prove to her that he's not a troubled child but a heroic man. Now we're tiptoeing toward Oedipus Rex: Will Hannibal kill a man in order to have sex with...