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...years and a stop before the Supreme Court, has landed in front of a North Carolina state judge, who will move it along April 9. The families want to know what happened that day in Fallujah. But they also want to press their claims that Blackwater, in its zeal to exploit this unexpected market for private security men, showed a callous disregard for the safety of its employees. In the process, the case of the Fallujah Four, as some now refer to them, has stirred a nest of questions about accountability, oversight and regulations governing for-profit gunslingers...
...TIME wrote that she possessed a curious "bellicose zeal and tomboyish winsomeness." Offscreen, blond bombshell Betty Hutton struggled with an addiction to pills and four failed marriages. Onscreen she lent a brash, explosive energy to such films of the '40s and '50s as Annie Get Your Gun and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek. After walking away from Paramount--and her film career--in a 1952 dispute, Hutton acknowledged she could be, well, temperamental. "When I'm working with jerks with no talent, I raise hell until I get what I want," she said...
...allegedly putting not-for-profit universities in the position of pursuing research for financial gain. The skeptics include Interim University President Derek C. Bok, who addressed the practice in his 2003 book “Universities in the Marketplace.” “Unfortunately, in their zeal to bring more revenue to their universities, technology transfer officers have occasionally acted...in ways that threaten to slow progress rather than promote it,” he wrote. But the white paper’s supporters say it will facilitate the process by which inventions in the academic world create...
Unfortunately, government "zeal" infects a lot of prosecutions for financial wrongdoing. Threats of prison give prosecutors enormous leverage, says Larry Ribstein, a law professor at the Uni- versity of Illinois, and they don't shy from using it in cases involving "common business practices" like structuring tax shelters, in which "the line between merely wrong and criminal interpretations of the tax code are hazy." And if a crime occurred, "you need to know who up the line had responsibility," he says, "and that is extraordinarily difficult to determine in the context of a large corporation." Especially in a criminal case...
...indicted employees, who couldn't afford their lawyers. A New York federal judge ruled that they could sue KPMG for their legal bills (KPMG has appealed the ruling) and slammed the prosecution for denying them the right to counsel: "The government ... has let its zeal get in the way of its judgment. It has violated the Constitution it is sworn to defend...