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Bacanovic was on vacation in Florida on Dec. 27, but Douglas Faneuil, his assistant, relayed the message from Waksal to him, prompting Bacanovic, according to Faneuil, to exclaim, "Oh, my God, get Martha on the phone!" The amount of money at stake was trivial to someone as wealthy as Stewart, who had previously sold 20% of her ImClone holdings. Yet Martha is famously tightfisted and, as testimony showed, an extremely demanding client. She was traveling to a resort in Mexico with her friend Mariana Pasternak. But through a series of phone calls she learned what Waksal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not A Good Thing For Martha | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

Blunkett also said that educated people have a stake in society and a responsibility to identify with a wider community...

Author: By Hersh Sagreiya, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Blunkett Calls for Global Communities | 3/10/2004 | See Source »

...drug traffic, using the cash to fund their armies and, in doing so, weakening the reach of Karzai's government in the provinces. A Cabinet minister who tried to stop traffickers two years ago was assassinated in Kabul, reportedly by a drug cartel. "Our national interests are at stake," says Mirwais Yasini, head of the Counter-Narcotics Directorate in Kabul. "We're facing anarchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remember Afghanistan? | 3/8/2004 | See Source »

...many problem as I had with the film, it is easy to see how believers can connect with it. This is the story that they have heard over and over again and now it’s acted on screen. Therefore, Christians have a stake in the fates of the characters and the hour-and-a-half run up to Jesus’ death becomes almost unbearable in its detailed depiction of his glory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILM REVIEW | 3/5/2004 | See Source »

...many problem as I had with the film, it is easy to see how believers can connect with it. This is the story that they have heard over and over again and now it’s acted on screen. Therefore, Christians have a stake in the fates of the characters and the hour-and-a-half run up to Jesus’ death becomes almost unbearable in its detailed depiction of his glory...

Author: By Ben B. Chung and Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Film Review of The Passion of Christ | 3/5/2004 | See Source »

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