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Lloyd's denies any wrongdoing and will defend itself vigorously. The insurance behemoth "has never been found guilty of fraud," says spokesman Adrian Beeby. Lloyd's has already beaten back a welter of legal actions in Britain. But it faces more charges on this side of the Atlantic. The U.S. Attorney in New York City has made Lloyd's the target of an intensive criminal investigation. And in a pivotal case due for trial early next year before a California state court in Los Angeles, a father and two daughters who lost heavily in Lloyd's have brought allegations...
...right back in the thick of the Reagan-era counterinsurgency from which President Clinton has tried so hard to distance himself. With a $1.6 billion U.S. aid package to the Colombian military at stake, President Andres Pastrana and U.S. drug czar General Barry McCaffrey found themselves forced Thursday to defend the Colombian army from allegations that it remains intimately connected with right-wing paramilitary groups notorious for human rights abuses. But despite Pastrana and McCaffrey's insistence that the military remains clean, Human Rights Watch reported Wednesday that there are documented ties between at least half of Colombia's army...
Despite the discriminatory nature of the restaurant's earlier policy, Elizabeth Bartholet '62, Wasserstein Public Interest Professor at Harvard Law School, said the restaurant might have had legal grounds to defend the practice...
...bill's detractors said the debate did not give FLA supporters a chance to defend the organization...
...just drive me to become... edgy. I should go out and buy horned-rimmed glasses and a matching smoking jacket, start hanging out at the Signet, watch Fellini in my spare time and invite discussions of Goethe instead of Cher--because, lord knows, I can't even begin to defend anything that happened this week in entertainment. (Maybe it's because I missed "Dawson's Creek"--the only thing that can possibly temper my spirits.) So what prompted such drastic disillusionment? A couple nights ago, I, like most of you--found myself entranced by "Who Wants to Marry a Multi...