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...used to disagree with this implication, navely beholden to the pious claim that the best things in life are free, or as the Beatles put it, money can't buy me love. Then I realized that 20 years after John Lennon's death, it's Michael Jackson who owns the lion's share of Beatles memorabilia (not to mention the Elephant Man's skeleton). Still, I clung to the belief that not everything in America is for sale...
...would seem. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Marilyn Patel, fast becoming the Judge Jackson of free music, declared Napster "enjoined from causing, assisting, facilitating, copying, or otherwise distributing all copyrighted songs or musical compositions...
When former Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale and his wife Sally visited Lee Elementary School in Jackson, Miss., swarms of children reached out to high-five them, introduce themselves and show their latest drawings. Jim, dressed in khakis and open-collar shirt, strolled into a classroom and took a third-grader's seat. He crouched forward as each small student read aloud from the The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse--some in clear, proud voices; others in low, hesitant tones. Sally soothingly helped when they stumbled over a word, and Jim encouraged them to read with inflection...
While the Barksdales were researching literacy programs in May 1999, a Jackson newspaper wrote about their quest. Richard Thompson, Mississippi's superintendent of education, read the article with keen interest. He needed money to expand a reading program that had shown success in some of the state's schools. He called the Barksdales...
...Karl Taro Greenfeld and David S. Jackson...