www.expertlaw.com/library/personal_injury/...




This is why Clinton's lawyers and Albright's lawyers sent ABC/Disney letters specifying which scenes in the movie were completely fabricated and never happened.

They were laying the groundwork for a successful lawsuit, imho, and showing that ABC/Disney proceeded with "actual malice" -- that they did know that those scenes were lies.

I mean, seems to me if they aren't doing anything wrong, and they don't care if someone eavesdrops or invades their privacy, then they shouldn't mind "peeping Toms" looking through their windows either.

That's the question I always pose to them when I hear that tired old "if you aren't doing anything wrong, then you shouldn't mind . . . "

excerpt from Forbes.com 04.12.04

http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2004/041...

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Still, "companies are playing fast and loose," says Adam Pener of Conflict Securities Advisory Group, a D.C.-based consultancy to multinational businesses. Halliburton, for example, manages to do business with Iran obliquely. Its Dubai-based affiliate, Halliburton Products & Services Ltd., allegedly has no Americans on staff; the Houston oil services company claims it has no direct ownership of the operation. Nevertheless, FORBES has obtained documents showing how Kala Ltd., the British arm of the National Iranian Oil Co., solicited at least 17 separate bids from the affiliate during 1997 and 1998 (when Vice President Cheney was Halliburton's chief executive). A few bids include handwritten notes that say "FOB Dubai Airport" or "FOB Dubai port"--meaning that the U.A.E. was just a way station between Halliburton and Tehran.

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This is pretty interesting. Probably the tip of the ice-berg.

I read Tipping the Velvet several years ago and liked it pretty well.

I just finished Fingersmith and thought it was really one of the best books I'd read. Maybe now on my own Top 10 list.

Both are set in London and environs circa 1880 and have well-designed plots and the author does an amazing job of putting you right there in a very realistic way.

Wow.

You must read The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey.

What a great book and it'll make you question whether everything you read in your history texts was correct or if some was just "tonypandy."

The book isn't very lengthy but it is excellent!

She was incisive, funny, energetic, insightful and charming. I couldn't take my eyes off her--couldn't wait to see what character she would slip into next, or what she would say about politics ("Dumbo meets Gumbo") or current events. She's definitely a liberal and she's definitely mad as hell about Bush.

Anyway, all her old characters were there--Edith Ann and Ernestine *snort* and the whole gang!

She even did a long Q & A (the q's were submitted beforehand on note cards) with the lights up at the end. Off the cuff, she's just as charming and witty as during her performance.

"Our greatest tool for survival is our ability to delude ourselves" was one of her memorable quotes tonight.

During the Q & A session, someone asked "What do you think about gay marriage?" Lily said, "I think imitating heterosexuals is a slippery slope. I mean, what next? Monster truck shows?"

*sigh* I just love her.




She has a good website with her partner, Jane, here:
www.lilytomlin.com

is going on?

I like Diet Coke, and I like Splenda, but Diet Coke with Splenda is not so good.

I like Diet Coke (the regular old recipe).

What's the diff with Coke Zero?


Are they intentionally trying to confuse me?