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PROVIDENCE, R.I.—The last time Tom Cavanagh found the back of the net, Howard Dean was still a serious presidential candidate, Louie’s Superette dispensed alcohol to minors with impunity and getting poked by strangers wasn’t nearly so innocuous...
Clear Channel isn’t to blame for the kerfuffle surrounding Howard Stern (Staff Ed, “Indecency on the Airwaves,” March 8). As Congress seeks to increase indecency penalties by a factor of 10 or more and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) revs up to enforce indecency standards more stringently, radio station owners can hardly be blamed for taking action to avoid fines. In fact, independent radio stations are even more vulnerable to government pressure than huge conglomerates, as they are less able to afford FCC fines. The problem here is government overregulation...
Those nations would correctly perceive that Kerry sacrificed the principle of “presidents, prime ministers come and go” in favor of pandering to a small part of the American electorate, while being challenged by former Vermont Gov. Howard B. Dean. Within Germany, this principle was invoked by opponents of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in 2002, after he built his campaign around opposition to the war. Now it is Schroeder’s government which may be on its way out, and the opposition Christian Democrats who urged a quiet, behind-the-scenes dissent towards Washington...
Where did Stewart go wrong? Trial lawyers say her attorney, Morvillo, took too big a risk in assuming that the government had not made its case. The defense presented a truncated case and never put Stewart or Bacanovic on the stand to offer a competing version of events. Howard Schiffman, head of securities litigation at Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky in Washington, notes that the defense's main argument--that Stewart and Bacanovic had an oral agreement to sell ImClone at a preset price--was left unsubstantiated. "What was the evidence that there was a prior conversation if they didn...
...even mad! That’s amazing!”). In the fall, Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Twelve should be a romp, and I’ll probably check out Martin Scorsese’s star-laden Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator, Oliver Stone’s Alexander, and Terry Gilliam’s The Brothers Grimm...