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COMPANY: Still in bankruptcy. Its $500 million settlement with the SEC is under review...
...administration, which together with the overwhelming support on Capitol Hill for his own policies has given him the freedom to cherry-pick U.S. positions. Even his embrace of the roadmap has been partial and conditional, and he claims to have achieved understandings with Washington that issues such as the settlement freeze - which Sharon finds politically difficult as one of the founding fathers of the movement to settle Israeli civilians on lands occupied in 1967 but never annexed - will be dealt with separately in talks between the U.S. and Israel. Sharon has agreed to dismantle a dozen settlement outposts built without...
That same resolve--sometimes seen as arrogance--was on display when Stewart stepped into a federal courthouse last week to be fingerprinted, photographed and indicted for obstruction of justice and securities fraud by the U.S. Attorney's office in New York City. Settlement talks had failed, and her lawyers' efforts to win an audience with Justice Department officials in Washington had gone nowhere. In the end, the Financial Times reported, Stewart, 61, would not agree to any plea that required jail time. She walked into the downtown Manhattan courtroom to be charged, as her daughter Alexis, 37, waited quietly...
...telling indicator of what's to come. Pressure from the media meant that an unprecedented number of state employees were disciplined. But the Guangdong provincial government issued a statement declaring that its C.-and-R. procedures are consistent with national policy. Sun's father, meanwhile, received a $53,000 settlement?and a team of police escorts, he told Time, to prevent him from discussing the case with the media. Nicolas Becquelin, research director of the New York City-based Human Rights in China organization, observes, "A scapegoat had to be found for a problem that is much larger than this...
...rush of Greek and Turkish Cypriots to cross the line has stunned politicians on both sides, as has the calm with which longtime enemies have greeted each other. Relaxed trade embargoes and the lifting of visa restrictions for Greek Cypriots in Turkey soon followed, raising hopes that a political settlement was at least thinkable before the Greek part of the island is formally admitted to the European Union next May. And for Serdar, there may be a payoff. His political party, which shares power with his father's National Unity Party, is facing a hard fight in parliamentary elections this...