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The five well-tailored defendants rose for sentencing in the U.S. District Court of Judge Carl Muecke in Phoenix, Ariz. All executives of large milk companies, the five had pleaded nolo contendere to charges of price fixing dating back to 1966. Muecke indicated that he would exact fines on each...
There is a fulsome quality about the movie, a certain disingenuousness. Les Violons du Bal (the title translates literally as Violins at the Ball, or idiomatically-according to Drach-as Others Call the Tune) demands our sympathy with all the sanctimony of someone collecting door to door for a favorite...
This translates into less jobs for farmworkers, and less hours for those who could still find work.
Carefully orchestrated publicity campaigns are nothing new to Mobutu's 23 million subjects. Every night the television station in the capital city of Kinshasa begins its news with a vision of heavenly clouds slowly dividing. As sonorous music swells, a dark, bespectacled face topped with a leopardskin cap emerges...
The tale illustrates the astonishing behind-the-scenes influence wielded by Ryoichi Sasakawa, 75, the most powerful remaining member of a vanishing breed of Japanese kingmakers known as kuromaku. The word translates literally as black curtain,* but the closest equivalent in American slang of the power it connotes is godfather...