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A few days ago, the chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Benny Gantz, pushed back against the idea -- which has recently gained much currency among Iran- watchers -- that it was too late for his country to act alone against Iran’s nuclear facilities, should sanctions, subterfuge and diplomacy fail.
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A Jewish boy in the northeastern U.S., I was raised on tales of the brilliant exploits of the Israeli intelligence agencies. So whenever Jonathan Pollard returns to the headlines -- as he has with President Barack Obama’s visit to Israel -- I can still remember my horror when he was arrested for passing secrets along to Israel in 1985. The teenage me could hardly believe that the Mossad might steal my own country’s secrets as well as Syria’s battle plans.
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R. Allen Stanford , the financier accused of leading a $7 billion fraud scheme, has been deprived of his constitutional rights by being held without bail before trial, lawyers including Alan Dershowitz said in a court filing.
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Lawyers for Goldman Sachs Group Inc. will face Lorin Reisner, the deputy director of enforcement for the Securities and Exchange Commission , in the agency’s lawsuit over the bank’s use of subprime mortgage-backed securities.
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“Zero Dark Thirty,” the best- reviewed film of 2012, has become an Oscar longshot because of a political backlash in Hollywood over its depiction of torture in the hunt for Osama Bin Laden.
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R. Allen Stanford , appearing as his own counsel, convinced a judge that he should be moved from a from jail to closely monitored house arrest so he can prepare for a hearing.
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Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Each year, during November, a charity called Movember encourages men to grow mustaches to raise money and awareness for men's health issues, specifically prostate and testicular cancer initiatives. Because of the unique relationship, throughout history, between the American lawyer and the mustache, we salute some of the most famous attorneys to wear a lip rug. William Howard Taft Donald Verrilli Eric Holder Jan Schlichtmann Johnnie Cochran Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Alan Dershowitz Douglas H. Ginsburg Clarence Thomas Adam Reposa The staff of Bloomberg Law is carrying on in this grand tradition of legal cookie dusters. We've been growing our lip toupees all month long in support of men's health. If you'd like to contribute to the cause, visit the Movember page of Team Grow Me Maybe. (Source: Bloomberg)
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Elena Kagan was only 43 when she became dean of Harvard Law School in 2003. One of her goals: Persuade some of her older colleagues to take on more courses and publish more papers.
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Banks agreed to pay about $15.5 billion to settle claims by about 720,000 investors outside the U.S. who lost money in Bernard Madoff’s fraud, said the chairman of a group of law firms representing victims.
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Galleon Group LLC co-founder Raj Rajaratnam had a ready answer for every question U.S. regulators put to him about possible insider trading three years ago, Bloomberg News’s David Glovin and Andrew M. Harris report.
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