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.../ From Stephen “Swifty” Warden, Toronto, ON, Canada...
...The United States team of elite GMs, and even its leader the former world No2 Fabiano Caruana, have looked unusually tentative in the opening rounds, dropping several half points to the relative minnows...
...Sister Veronica Roche, a nun with the Sisters of St Joseph in Camden, has seen an improvement in public safety over the past few years....
...In today’s world, few mourn the end of the parade: outside hold-outs such as the UK and Gulf states, the institution of royalty has passed its sell-by date....
...One of his touchstones for anti-competitive behaviour is the late 1990s US v Microsoft case, in which the company was found guilty of using its operating system monopoly to stifle competitors like Netscape...
...On a hot afternoon last September, Rickey Hawthorne walked out of the gates of the United States’ largest maximum-security prison for the last time....
...It’s British — the BBC still broadcasts to Africa from here — but the RAF shares the airfield with the United States Air Force, and the island’s strings are pulled far away, in London and Washington....
...Astor v Vanderbilt: battle of the belles Even prominent society figures of New York’s Gilded Age were not above displays of petty one-upmanship, writes Georgina Varley....
...This simply said: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”...
...Singapore Press Holdings, the publisher of the city-state’s largest newspaper, The Straits Times, said on October 17 it will shed up to 10 per cent of its 4,200 or so staff members over the next two years...
...It is not immediately obvious that there will be closer economic ties with the United States, although Trump may well aim for that....
...States under a Trump Presidency....
...John Vickers, warden, All Souls College, Oxford The new charter is a further step in the UK fiscal policy tradition of virtue postponed....
...Both the state of the economy and the existence of free movement of workers are significant determinants of migration flows....
...The Republic of Argentina and Citibank, N.A. appeal from the July 28, 2014 order (the “Order”) of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Griesa, J.) clarifying that certain...
...After the dust eventually settles on NML v Argentina, will the existing regime be considered just strong enough to survive the rise of litigotiation — or will we get something else?...
...Joseph Cotchett, a partner at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, one of the law firms that had fought HP on behalf of shareholders and has now joined it to pursue former Autonomy management, rejects the allegation...
...Regulations that prohibit money market funds from “breaking the buck”, i.e., returning less than invested, as is the case in the United States, can be changed if needed (not that we expect the US to move...
...For when historians come to study the Great Calamity of 2014 in international relations between the United States and China, they shall surely whisper one name, in trembling tones. Horatio D....
...Including on whether “recognition of that process is manifestly contrary to United States public policy”: The Special Liquidators request that this United States Court sanction the Irish government’s inappropriate...
...EU member states....
...led to legislation enacted by the United States Congress....
...Deal with it, says the Second Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals: We can see that direct warning to redraft pari passu clauses being taken....
...Admittedly, some of the really futuristic parts of Ex-Im Bank v Grenada are in the procedure of holdout litigation....
...There’s plenty more in the complaint on the windfall — the beginning of the 2007 ratings storm....
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