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Then there's the question of all the prodigious Flori-dough. Prominent Florida Democratic donors and fund raisers are now threatening to withhold or seek the return of hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars from the national party if at least some of the state's delegates are not reinstated...
...euthanasia. The political consequences of that ruling will be as grave as Sebire's vital stake in it. Members of France's center-right government have rejected Sebire's appeal in virtual unison, arguing that existing legislation, laid down in 2005, allows families and doctors of terminal patients to withhold life-sustaining treatment, but in no way permits active measures to provoke death. Sebire and her backers retort that preventing her from getting medical assistance to end her life swiftly and painlessly ensures months or years of additional torment from pain. Her death will come, they say, after a long...
...relies on one of her longtime characters - Soph (for Sophie Tucker), the oldest babe in show business - to supply the raunch dressing. "My tits have fallen so far South they're speakin' Spanish," Soph confesses before telling a few ribald classics. Since this is a family website, I'll withhold the punch lines and tease you with a couple of the setups: "If I'd know you were a virgin I would've been gentler." And "Have you ever been picked up by the fuzz?" (Cappers and rim shots available upon written request...
...investigation will look at issues like the use of intellectual-property rights, litigation and settlement agreements covering the E.U. - all subjects that companies tend to consider highly confidential and might easily withhold, conceal or destroy, Kroes said...
...private equity firm, took a majority stake in ALL3MEDIA in 2006, the British TV production company has been performing well, says Rob Donaldson, head of private equity at consultants Baker Tilly in London. A bigger worry for EMI: the publicity generated by the shakeup pushes more artists to withhold their music. "It's difficult for artists to invest in a company going through such change," says one record industry exec. "Will the A&R man who believes in you be there next month...