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…rize at the Hillman Foundation's annual HOUSE OVERSIGHT 021115 ceremony in New York City on May 7. "In a time when this country's highest powers have taken it as their business to demean the work of journalists, it is particularly significant for us to honor those who have taken...

…. ET Lawyers for the imam living in Pennsylvania whom Turkish authorities accuse of directing a coup last month in that country said Friday they fear for his life and may ask U.S. authorities to help protect him. Since the failed coup that led to the deaths of 271 people, Turkish...

…s to the idea. This is a problem: Italy has issued around as much public debt as Germany, but is a considerably smaller country with almost twice the debt load as a percentage of its GDP. Absent a decision by Germany to move to Federalism or a lot more debt monetization by the EC...

… to avoid the chance of rape.” * * * In the fall of 1981, I booked myself for a cross-country tour, from New York to Chicago, Minneapolis, San Francisco and Los Angeles. While I was in New York, a nun was raped. When I got to Chicago, the ra...

…periodic internal audits. The degree of appropriate due diligence is fact-spe- cific and should vary based on industry, country, size, and nature of the transaction, and the method and amount of third-party compensation. Factors to consider, for instance, include risks presented...

…te aftermath of World War II, intended the Immunities Act to serve two related purposes. First, it would “enabl[e] this country to fulfill its commitments in connection with its membership in international organiza- tions.” S. Rep. No. 861, 79th Cong., 1st Sess., 8 (1945); see al...

…ttle? -Did Punch Sulzberger try to convince you to join the NYT from Dalton? Did you once drive with Sulzberger to his country estate ina wood paneled station wagon, while he talked on a phone to his chaffeur? -did you meet Ace Greenberg through his children at Dalton? -Did he...

….S. attorney, current criminal defense lawyer. Q. Was he a friendship of the firm's? A. Represented RRA when I fled the country. Q. So he was a friend of the firm, or a friend of yours at least, right? A. He wasn't a friend of mine. Q. A friend of the firm? A. No idea. Q. He repr...

…ern Saudi Arabia, an area mostly populated by Saudi Shiites, believed their movement would spread to other parts of the country, but the protests remained confined to the East. The youth movement ended its protests there, following pressure from community elders and the arrests o...

…confidence, testosterone, and war within the context of a simulated game. Each subject played the role of a leader in a country at war with another over diamond resources. The goal of the game was to accrue the highest level of resources or defeat the neighboring country. Though...

…produce a daily comedic segment of this dream candidate interviewing Americans in truck stops and McDonald's across the country. A few of the "Saturday Night Live" script writers could certainly be enticed to disguise serious debates as informative amusement. Any candidate must b...

…ad yet to be named and located by Turkish authorities early Tuesday. The President-elect made building a wall along the country's southern border one of his main campaign talking points, frequently promising his supporters that it will be a "great" and "beautiful" wall. But his p...

…hotograph of refugees trying to cross a destroyed Pyongyang bridge, over the Taedong River in North Korea to escape the country. The photo won the Pulitzer Prize in 1951. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020685

…ey’re like a Chinese restaurant: always open. He sends screenwriter David Seidler and Tom Hooper to every corner of the country doing Q&As until they are both blue in the face from “finding their voice.” SAG voters begin seeing the film two and three times. In January at the Gold...

…t is striking how, in passing through these periods of unthinkable change, America has benefited so much, so fully. The country was, to begin with, born out of the social and political revolutions of the 18" century. The national liberation that pulled Jefferson from his Virginia...