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Neilson Barnard/Getty Images The Palm Beach finance crowd can paddleboard whenever they please. Behind a semicircular brick drive and a lawn as manicured as a putting green sits a 30,000-square-foot masterpiece of Italian Renaissance architecture called Casa Nana. John Porter,...

"Trump’s relationship with Deutsche Bank has not always been amicable; in November 2008, he had difficulty making payments on a $640 million Deutsch Bank loan — $40 million of which he guaranteed personally — he took out to finance the construction of the Trump tower in Chicago.”...

even if the result is similar: Mass gatherings, control of some essential public space - a square, a stock exchange, a park. All organized, it appears, using completely ethereal techniques: Text messages, video postings, chat rooms. Similar movements appear around in the world. I...

…kable. 1. Brian Whitmore, “Vladimir Putin, Conservative Icon,” Atlantic, December 20, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/international/ar- chive/2013/12/vladimir-putin-conservative-icon/282572/?single_page=true. 2. Ivo Oliveira, “National Front Seeks Russian Cash for Election Fig...

…s or the politicized rewriting of history, especially in countries, like Russia and China, that are integrated into the international university system. We urge universities to reject the establishment of projects and study departments—whether at home or overseas—that do not adhe...

…bility, either disregarding the harm imposed or convincing ourselves that it was justified, even obligatory. In several international studies of school-aged children, results consistently show that those who are most morally disengaged are most likely to engage in various forms o...

…ttoo. Aaron Sorkin becomes the face of the film and an immediate shoo-in for the adapted screenplay Oscar. The Hamptons International Film Festival in October suddenly becomes a launching pad for 127 Hours, where star-cum-Yale/NYU student James Franco appears. More Oscar buzz. Pr...

…ntified as Virginia Roberts, one ; chamber.” . of the services Maxwell provided for Epstein was the procure- owed by an international scan- ; ment of underage women. (Through her lawyer and in court hundreds of millions of pounds bE papers, Maxwell has vehemently denied any invol...

…s Saatchi's gallery and Channel 4. Their work is part of The House of the Nobleman, an exhibition of art borrowed from international collections that is being staged in an 18th-century mansion in Cornwall Terrace, Regent's Park, a stone's throw from the Frieze Art Fair. Four of...

…A recent "Investor's Business Daily" article provided very > interesting statistics from a survey by the United Nations International > Health organization. > > Percentage of men and women who survived a cancer five years after diagnosis: > > U.S. 65% > > England 46% > > Canada 4...

…d norms. It was increasingly expected that countries would not only hold elections, but that their elections would meet international standards and be judged “free and fair.” There was also an expectation that political parties would be able to compete on a reasonably level playi...

… procedure codes administered in all cantons. See Anna Petrig, The Expansion of Swiss Criminal Jurisdiction in Light of International Law, 9 Utrecht L. Rev. 34, 36 (2013). 33 See Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1983 s 10(2); Annual Report 2014-15, supra note 71. 34 Tn unusu...

…iens brought into the country for the purposes of prostitution, without a showing of force, fraud, or coercion, and the International Marriage Brokers Act (IMBRA), this bill is not the vehicle for this language. Furthermore, subsection (a)(1) removes the requirement from section...

… by Bashar Assad. In contrast, Makhlouf offered the harsher alternative if the president’s approach was rejected by the international community. It was a classic good cop, bad cop routine, and those familiar with Syrian manners will be little surprised by the ploy. That’s why it...

… two NSA analysts, William Martin and Bernon Mitchell, defected to Russia in the 1960s and accused the NSA of violating international law after arriving in Moscow, U.S. government officials responded by putting out the story that they were homosexual lovers, which was both untrue...