Brazil’s state-run public health system will pay even for sex-change operations. Brazil’s Health Ministry said Saturday that the public health system would provide free sex-change operations to citizens in compliance with a court order. Brazilian lawyers successfully argued that sexual reassignment surgery is covered under a constitutional clause guaranteeing medical care as a basic right. Transsexuals are […]
A bunch of reporters from CNET and the AP sued HP and two of its former executives over the computer giant’s use of illegal tactics while spying on journalists and their family members. HP’s investigators illegally obtained telephone records of reporters using “pretexting” techniques – pretending to be someone else to get private information – to […]
In yet another corporate scandal, Dell admitted to repeatedly lying about its financial results and said it had cooked its books for several years to meet financial targets. After an internal probe revealed the accounting manipulations and irregularities – which usually occurred at the close of a quarter – Dell intends to restate the results […]
Blame it on Fidel Director: Julie Gravas Cast: Nina Kervel-Bey, Julie Depardieu, Stefano Accorsi, Benjamin Feuillet Playing at: Cinema Village, E.12th St, New York, NY (as of September 3, 2007) Blame it on Fidel is a welcome antidote to the tsunami of trashy Bollywood movies that we’ve been drowning in this year. Chak De India, […]
Virtualization software vendor VMware got a nice pop in its IPO debut on Wall Street on Tuesday, August 14, 2007. In one of the most successful IPOs of 2007, VMware’s shares closed at $51 on its opening day Tuesday, a 76% increase over its IPO price of $29. On its first trading day on the New York […]
Israeli super spy and assassin Gabriel Allon and his daredevil cohorts are back in Daniel Silva’s new book The Secret Servant. Allon and his team delighted us in The Messenger, a gripping and often chilling account of an assassination plot against the holiest of holy men – the Pope – right in the Vatican City. So […]