Harvey Weinstein work puts new glare on celebrity lawyer
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David Boies' role as a hard-nosed litigator representing corporations has earned him lavish payouts but created big potential conflicts.
David Boies' role as a hard-nosed litigator representing corporations has earned him lavish payouts but created big potential conflicts.
Since her party won just 30.2 per cent of the vote in September, the chancellor has struggled to bridge a yawning gap between prospective coalition partners.
New Zealand's central bank signaled it may need to raise interest rates slightly earlier than previously expected as capacity pressures and a weaker currency stoke inflation.
Unless London makes a big financial offer this month, the bloc may be unable to adopt guidelines for the transition talks at a crucial summit in December.
The Chinese President reminded his US counterpart that America's "big three" automakers sold more than 5 million vehicles in China last year.
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The world's proliferating rich lists have clear weaknesses. Some compilers are more scrupulous than others.
Deferring to China 10 years ago on a four-way link with Japan, India, and the US did nothing to stop Beijing's assertiveness.
The magazine says the Commerce Secretary "lied to us" about his net worth, exaggerating it by billions of dollars to make the widely-cited "...
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