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...government threatened to sue her firm, FFIA, in 2000, and the sides have been in sporadic negotiations since then, according to FFIA lawyer Martin F. Murphy. The result was last week’s agreement, in which the government agreed not to pursue its claims against FFIA in return for the settlement payment...
...flood congressional hearings and stump for their reforms in the heartland. Kean told TIME that the panel hopes to release at least four additional staff-written reports, on such topics as aviation and border security and terrorist financing. Since some contain classified documents interested parties may have to first sue the government to see them. But the gentility with which lawmakers treated the commission since the release of its report seems to be evaporating. The panel's call for streamlining the number of congressional intelligence committees and eliminating limits on their members' length of service--in the name of developing...
...whales are." Two years ago, Nissen and geologist Elizabeth Price discovered a plentiful site on ground that teams had walked over a hundred times previously: a bushfire had cleared away the grass to unveil an ancient graveyard for various extinct species. "At Riversleigh," says Archer's wife, project coprincipal Sue Hand, "there are always these episodes of serendipity...
...Senator, Edwards has voted against most tort-reform legislation, bills that would put limits on the right to sue or impose caps on jury awards. And--no surprise--lawyers provided the lion's share of Edwards' presidential-primary-campaign funds. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, of the $14.5 million he raised, $9.3 million came from lawyers or law firms. That is something Bush might have turned into a campaign issue--if the President hadn't got slightly more from them himself ($9.4 million...
...known garden walls. The private estancias of Uruguay or the hidden villas of Italy, for example, offer gardens all the more exquisite because they are almost never opened to the public. "A garden is most appreciated when it is peaceful. And special private visits are now very popular," says Sue Macdonald of U.K.-based company Boxwood Tours...