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However, the Food Lion case represents at best a Pyrrhic victory for the American press. Public confidence in the news media, as evidenced by the multi-million-dollar jury verdict, is lower than any newspaper or television network would like to admit. Tactics that skirt or violate the law will buy no friends among a public already quick to identify bias in reporters and dismiss their reports. The press occupies too important a position in the democratic process to be complacent towards this ambient distrust; perceptions of a biased, unethical or irresponsible press will only encourage the public...
First, it promotes equal representation of minorities and eliminates the gerrymandering and redrawing of single-seat districts, replacing these districts with one multi-member district that proportionally elects a number of candidates. This characteristic is paramount in light of the Supreme Court's ruling in Miller v. Johnson, which struck down race-conscious districting as unconstitutional. Proportional representation is a racially nonbiased means of accomplishing representative minority presence within our political institutions and can serve to convince minority voters of the purpose and value of their votes...
...Multi-instrumentalist Moby, whose new album Play (V2) is heavily sample-based, is skeptical about the idea that deejays will ever be regarded as true artists. "I think being a deejay is a creative act, but I have a hard time seeing it as a musical act," says Moby, who worked as a deejay for about eight years and recently deejayed at the MTV Video Music Awards. "I see a good deejay as being a really amazing technician as opposed to a being a musician." Still, a good deejay can be a canny promoter. At the MTV awards, Moby says...
Ever since a 1992 multi-million dollar discrimination lawsuit that highlighted the force's poor management, Harvard stopped hiring in-house guards, effectively setting up a stranglehold on the force. The management problems showed Harvard the benefits of outsourcing. After all, Harvard specializes in education, not guarding. It seems natural that Harvard employ companies to provide services like security that are secondary to Harvard's primary goal. And the guards employed by SSI, a private security company, have proven their competence at the medical and business school campuses...
...these have come with multi-million dollar price tags and have only been possible because of the success of the campaign...