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musicco

上面的是不是都被接了？那我下一篇哦！挨到周末终于有时间了。最近开始准备考研了……[em03]

以下是引用musicco在2005-3-5 0:42:09的发言： 上面的是不是都被接了？那我下一篇哦！ 挨到周末终于有时间了。最近开始准备考研了……[em03] 上面有没有被接的 When the Prosecutor Becomes the Lawbreaker!

musicco

哦，好的，嘿嘿，

musicco

今天的有么？是我的哦[em01]

Rainlotus

March 06, 2005 Jackson already eyes world comeback tour John Harlow, Santa Maria Star plans return to recoup legal costs of up to £50m as jury gets glimopse of his private Neverland

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BY 5am each day, long before the sun rises over his fairytale home Neverland, Michael Jackson has finished his daily dance workout and settled down to choose armbands and trinkets for the day ahead in court. He pores over 100 secondhand medals, ranging from the Order of Vienna to a chunky golden orb minted by a former king of Swaziland. He tells the staff who help him to dress that the medals “make me strong for the battle to come”. As an aide makes sure the beleaguered 46-year-old pop star’s tie is perfectly knotted, Jackson is already speaking on his gem-encrusted mobile phone. The first call is often to a New York-based music mogul, Charles Koppelman, with whom Jackson is planning a world tour — provisionally entitled Celebration — to start a few months after the acquittal he prays for on child sex charges. Business associates say he is buoyed by the belief that music will provide his pathway to redemption in the public eye. His last album, Invincible, sold 8m copies but failed to recoup the costs to his record label, Sony. Jackson is nevertheless determined to stage a lucrative blockbuster tour. He wants to exceed the record £60m his former musical partner Sir Paul McCartney grossed from touring America in 2002. If Jackson stays out of jail, he will need the money, particularly if he returns to the spendthrift ways portrayed in Martin Bashir’s Granada documentary Living with Michael Jackson, which was broadcast in February 2003 and led to the trial that began last week. Forbes magazine estimates that over his 40-year career the former child star has earned $500m (£260m). Other magazines have estimated his wealth at between £75m and £150m, including £10m in record royalties last year. However, he is also paying off a £105m loan from Sony, secured against the Beatles’ back catalogue, in which he owns a half share. US lawyers estimate that the trial could cost him up to £50m. Larry Feldman, who once represented Jordan Chandler — a boy who was paid $15.3m in 1993 not to press abuse charges — said the cost of employing up to 100 legal advisers over the past two years and through a possible appeal next year could reach £40m. “You have to think of Michael as a corporation fighting for survival,” he said. On top of that there are extra security teams, including private detectives, and public relations advisers such as Ann Kite, his former consultant, who said in court last week that she was paid £12,000 a month. Mounting concern about Jackson’s finances has prompted alleged creditors, from Sotheby’s to local suppliers, to start legal action against him. Koppelman, meanwhile, is working in the background to disentangle his finances and vet offers on the long-mooted sale of the 3,000-acre Neverland estate. Jurors in the nearby Santa Maria courthouse sat open-mouthed as they watched a 12-minute film shot by police during a raid on the property. It showed Jackson’s bedroom stuffed with toys, dolls and mannequins. “It is difficult to imagine a normal, healthy 46-year-old-man living there,” said one television commentator. This is the heart of the prosecution case presented by Thomas Sneddon, the 62-year-old district attorney for Santa Barbara county. Sneddon, a former Vietnam veteran whose tenacity has earned him the nickname of the Bulldog, is a man with a mission: to jail the star he depicts as a monstrous predator. He first investigated Jackson in 1993, when he received reports of abuse from Chandler’s family, and was furious when the singer used his fortune to avert a comprehensive police investigation. Sneddon kept seeking witnesses to the abuse — earning condemnation from Jackson as a “cold, cold man” in a 1997 song, DS, which ends with the sound of a bullet. Police, worried about deranged fans, have stepped up security at Sneddon’s home. The Bulldog got his second chance to sink his teeth into Jackson when Bashir filmed him holding hands with a 13-year-old cancer patient, Gavin Arvizo, and proclaiming it was normal to share a bed with boys. Sneddon demanded an examination of Gavin by social workers and psychologists, and the child alleged that Jackson had repeatedly abused him in his locked bedroom at Neverland. The evidence Sneddon collected at Neverland, from pornographic magazines to DNA samples, is now being put to the Santa Maria jury in the new millennium’s first “trial of the century”. Jackson could face 24 years in prison if convicted of 10 charges of abusing a minor, plying him with alcohol and conspiring to hold him hostage. Sneddon’s first significant witness, Gavin’s 18-year-old student sister Davellin, calmly recounted how she saw Jackson give him wine disguised in a fizzy drink can. The pair would then disappear for up to 30 minutes at a time into locked rooms, she said, after which Gavin would “act weird.” But she also admitted, under cross-examination, that she initially told social services her brother had not been molested. The concession was wrung by Thomas Mesereau, Jackson’s defence lawyer who is known as the Fox after a series of unexpected pro bono victories in the American Deep South in which he rescued poor black men from death row. He also secured the acquittal of Jackson’s friend, the boxer Mike Tyson, on a rape charge. His main target will not be Gavin or his brother Star, who claims to have witnessed some of the alleged abuse, but their mother, who has remarried and is now confusingly named Janet Jackson. Mesereau claims she turned Gavin against Michael Jackson in a failed blackmail plot. Before she met Jackson, the defence argues, Gavin’s mother had written begging letters to numerous celebrities including Jim Carrey and Tyson, seeking money for her son’s medical treatment. Mesereau told the court that when she finally received a £14,000 cheque from Louise Palanker, a comedian, part of it was spent on a large television. Mesereau said Janet had used fabricated evidence to sue a supermarket chain, alleging that its security staff had manhandled her, and that she had also illegally claimed social security payments. Calling her a “shakedown artist”, he said Janet had been preparing to blackmail the star when Sneddon intervened. Mesereau is understood to have a back-up plan if the witnesses fail to crumble and if he decides he cannot trust Jackson on the witness stand. He will then consider producing psychiatrists to argue that the star is fixated with children but has no sexual interest in them. Another strategy has already been abandoned by the Fox: he will not pretend that Jackson is “normal”. On Friday, as tears flowed down the star’s heavily made-up face during the cross-examination of Davellin, the chances of any juror dancing to that tune seemed remote.

Rainlotus

March 06, 2005 Jackson already eyes world comeback tour John Harlow, Santa Maria Star plans return to recoup legal costs of up to £50m as jury gets glimopse of his private Neverland BY 5am each day, long before the sun rises over his fairytale home Neverland, Michael Jackson has finished his daily dance workout and settled down to choose armbands and trinkets for the day ahead in court. He pores over 100 secondhand medals, ranging from the Order of Vienna to a chunky golden orb minted by a former king of Swaziland. He tells the staff who help him to dress that the medals “make me strong for the battle to come”. As an aide makes sure the beleaguered 46-year-old pop star’s tie is perfectly knotted, Jackson is already speaking on his gem-encrusted mobile phone. The first call is often to a New York-based music mogul, Charles Koppelman, with whom Jackson is planning a world tour — provisionally entitled Celebration — to start a few months after the acquittal he prays for on child sex charges. Business associates say he is buoyed by the belief that music will provide his pathway to redemption in the public eye. His last album, Invincible, sold 8m copies but failed to recoup the costs to his record label, Sony. Jackson is nevertheless determined to stage a lucrative blockbuster tour. He wants to exceed the record £60m his former musical partner Sir Paul McCartney grossed from touring America in 2002. If Jackson stays out of jail, he will need the money, particularly if he returns to the spendthrift ways portrayed in Martin Bashir’s Granada documentary Living with Michael Jackson, which was broadcast in February 2003 and led to the trial that began last week. Forbes magazine estimates that over his 40-year career the former child star has earned $500m (£260m). Other magazines have estimated his wealth at between £75m and £150m, including £10m in record royalties last year. However, he is also paying off a £105m loan from Sony, secured against the Beatles’ back catalogue, in which he owns a half share. US lawyers estimate that the trial could cost him up to £50m. Larry Feldman, who once represented Jordan Chandler — a boy who was paid $15.3m in 1993 not to press abuse charges — said the cost of employing up to 100 legal advisers over the past two years and through a possible appeal next year could reach £40m. “You have to think of Michael as a corporation fighting for survival,” he said. On top of that there are extra security teams, including private detectives, and public relations advisers such as Ann Kite, his former consultant, who said in court last week that she was paid £12,000 a month. Mounting concern about Jackson’s finances has prompted alleged creditors, from Sotheby’s to local suppliers, to start legal action against him. Koppelman, meanwhile, is working in the background to disentangle his finances and vet offers on the long-mooted sale of the 3,000-acre Neverland estate. Jurors in the nearby Santa Maria courthouse sat open-mouthed as they watched a 12-minute film shot by police during a raid on the property. It showed Jackson’s bedroom stuffed with toys, dolls and mannequins. “It is difficult to imagine a normal, healthy 46-year-old-man living there,” said one television commentator. This is the heart of the prosecution case presented by Thomas Sneddon, the 62-year-old district attorney for Santa Barbara county. Sneddon, a former Vietnam veteran whose tenacity has earned him the nickname of the Bulldog, is a man with a mission: to jail the star he depicts as a monstrous predator. He first investigated Jackson in 1993, when he received reports of abuse from Chandler’s family, and was furious when the singer used his fortune to avert a comprehensive police investigation. Sneddon kept seeking witnesses to the abuse — earning condemnation from Jackson as a “cold, cold man” in a 1997 song, DS, which ends with the sound of a bullet. Police, worried about deranged fans, have stepped up security at Sneddon’s home. The Bulldog got his second chance to sink his teeth into Jackson when Bashir filmed him holding hands with a 13-year-old cancer patient, Gavin Arvizo, and proclaiming it was normal to share a bed with boys. Sneddon demanded an examination of Gavin by social workers and psychologists, and the child alleged that Jackson had repeatedly abused him in his locked bedroom at Neverland. The evidence Sneddon collected at Neverland, from pornographic magazines to DNA samples, is now being put to the Santa Maria jury in the new millennium’s first “trial of the century”. Jackson could face 24 years in prison if convicted of 10 charges of abusing a minor, plying him with alcohol and conspiring to hold him hostage. Sneddon’s first significant witness, Gavin’s 18-year-old student sister Davellin, calmly recounted how she saw Jackson give him wine disguised in a fizzy drink can. The pair would then disappear for up to 30 minutes at a time into locked rooms, she said, after which Gavin would “act weird.” But she also admitted, under cross-examination, that she initially told social services her brother had not been molested. The concession was wrung by Thomas Mesereau, Jackson’s defence lawyer who is known as the Fox after a series of unexpected pro bono victories in the American Deep South in which he rescued poor black men from death row. He also secured the acquittal of Jackson’s friend, the boxer Mike Tyson, on a rape charge. His main target will not be Gavin or his brother Star, who claims to have witnessed some of the alleged abuse, but their mother, who has remarried and is now confusingly named Janet Jackson. Mesereau claims she turned Gavin against Michael Jackson in a failed blackmail plot. Before she met Jackson, the defence argues, Gavin’s mother had written begging letters to numerous celebrities including Jim Carrey and Tyson, seeking money for her son’s medical treatment. Mesereau told the court that when she finally received a £14,000 cheque from Louise Palanker, a comedian, part of it was spent on a large television. Mesereau said Janet had used fabricated evidence to sue a supermarket chain, alleging that its security staff had manhandled her, and that she had also illegally claimed social security payments. Calling her a “shakedown artist”, he said Janet had been preparing to blackmail the star when Sneddon intervened. Mesereau is understood to have a back-up plan if the witnesses fail to crumble and if he decides he cannot trust Jackson on the witness stand. He will then consider producing psychiatrists to argue that the star is fixated with children but has no sexual interest in them. Another strategy has already been abandoned by the Fox: he will not pretend that Jackson is “normal”. On Friday, as tears flowed down the star’s heavily made-up face during the cross-examination of Davellin, the chances of any juror dancing to that tune seemed remote.

Rainlotus

最近有一次很重要的考试，所以很忙～～谁把上面的翻译一下发给ＫＥＥＮ～～～谢谢了～～～

musicco

OK,交给我了。

musicco

呜？前半部分是早晨那篇Keen翻译的新闻吧？[em09][em09]

Rainlotus

是和巡演有关的～～但是稍微详细一些～～

musicco

哦，翻好了，上交了[em01][em01]

JOZ,你多事 [em01][em01][em01] musicco，辛苦了 知道我为什么不全文翻译那新闻吗？ 因为错误和编造的财务信息太多了 MJ哪有他说的那么可怜， 只有巡演的信息可以参考

musicco

汗了……原来这样啊……翻译的时候是发现有些奇怪的地方……[em19]

Jackson Accuser Was Living Life of Luxury SANTA MARIA, Calif. - They rode in chauffeured limousines, were whisked across the country in private jets and were treated to spas at luxury resorts. Along the way, the poor family with the cancer-stricken son circulated within a constellation of celebrities — Chris Tucker, George Lopez, Kobe Bryant among them. But of all the stars, Michael Jackson (news) was the brightest, and seemingly the most generous. "We were broken and Michael fixed us," the mother of the family said on a video shown in court last week at Jackson's child molestation trial. During the first week of a trial that is expected to last months, the prosecution described Jackson as a sexual predator who molested the boy when he was 13 and held his family against their will. Jackson's lawyer called him the victim of a celebrity-obsessed family seeking money. "Michael Jackson continually attracts people who want to profit," defense attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr. said in his opening statement. What emerged from the trial's early stages was a portrait of a family from the wrong side of the tracks who managed to infiltrate the rarified air of Hollywood celebritydom. The mother, who had show business ambitions for her children, took them to classes at The Laugh Factory, a popular comedy club on Hollywood's Sunset Strip. When her son, then 10, was stricken with cancer, she appealed to people she met there for help. Mesereau said Fritz Coleman, a popular local TV weathercaster, organized a fund-raiser for the boy and Laugh Factory owner Jamie Masada asked the boy if there were any celebrities he wanted to meet. He named Tucker, Adam Sandler and Jackson. Mesereau said the boy's mother also approached other celebrities, including Lopez, actor Jim Carrey (news), "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno and boxer Mike Tyson. Leno went to police, telling them "something was wrong" and that he suspected the family was "looking for a mark," according to Mesereau. Some of the celebrities the family approached responded generously, according to testimony and defense statements. Comic Louise Palanker reportedly gave the family $20,000. Tucker took the boy and his family by private plane to an Oakland Raiders football game and a relative's wedding, and sometimes let the sister sleep at his fiancee's home. Bryant, the Los Angeles Lakers star, visited him and posed for a picture. And in August 2000, Jackson called. The two talked about the boy's illness and Jackson invited him to his Neverland Ranch. "I got really excited," the boy said. "I was going to see Michael Jackson." A limousine arrived at the family's modest apartment and took the boy to Jackson's estate. "I thought 'Dang, this is cool,'" he recalled. "We got there and it was so beautiful and music was playing." His mother, father and siblings also went to Neverland. Jackson invited them all to dinner and showed them the wonders of his private amusement park with its rides and zoo. According to testimony, the boy and his brother slept in Jackson's room that first night, they on the bed, Jackson on the floor. Later, the star gave the family an SUV to use for the boy's trips to the doctor. "God worked through Michael to help us," the accuser's mother said in the video played for the jury. "When we saw no hope, Michael said there was hope." The mother, who is Hispanic, also spoke of the family's experiences with rejection and discrimination. "We weren't the right Zip code, the right race. All the doors closed on us and Michael said 'My doors are open.'" The prosecution claims the video was staged by Jackson's employees and the family was told what to say. The family did not see Jackson again for many months, according to testimony, and in the interim the mother separated from her husband, claiming abuse. In 2002 they were summoned to Neverland to participate in a documentary on Jackson's life being made by British TV personality Martin Bashir. They stayed at Neverland for weeks at a time, according to the sister, with the mother occupying a guest cottage, the boys and girl in guest rooms. In early February 2003, the mother told her daughter they were going to Miami for a press conference with Jackson. But in Florida, where they were put up in a luxury resort and treated to spa treatments, they were told not to watch the Bashir documentary when it was broadcast. A period of frenetic activity ensued — a private plane ride back to Neverland, a middle-of-the-night departure by the family for their home in a chauffeured Rolls-Royce, a trip to another luxury resort where the family spent more than $3,000 on clothing and spa treatments and were told they were going to Brazil. There was a trip to Los Angeles in the dead of night to make a "rebuttal" video extolling Jackson's generosity. And, the prosecution said, there were threats that the family would be harmed if they did not cooperate. Then, abruptly, it was over. They were returned to a grandmother's home and never visited Jackson again. Within weeks of their final visit, the family contacted two lawyers, one of whom had arranged a $20 million settlement for another boy who made sexual claims against Jackson in 1993. The boy was sent to see a psychologist who reported that he might have been molested.