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...that end, Random House routinely demands permission from writers "to license mechanical rights." Simon & Schuster, among other print publishers, offers a defined structure to its authors, based on percentage of retail cassette sales: 5% on the first 10,000 units sold, 6% on the next 5,000, 6.5% thereafter. Those figures are not frozen; tape publishing is about to make its own rules. Predicts Jane Friedman of Random House: "The issue today, ultimately, is that the publisher wants to retain all audio rights, but as in any contract, every point, every clause is up for negotiation. A publisher simply...
...Supreme Court has, in recent weeks, reiterated its commitment to abortion rights and affirmative action. Political pragmatists in the Administration have thus far thwarted Meese in his efforts to wipe out minority quotas for Government contracts through an Executive Order. Earlier this year when Meese endorsed a plan for random drug-testing of federal employees, a number of top Reagan aides criticized it as an invasion of privacy. And, of course, the methods and findings of the pornography commission have provoked a downpour of derision from liberals...
...weeks ago, medical investigators discovered that two residents of Auburn, Wash., had died as a result of swallowing toxic Excedrin capsules. Bristol-Myers quickly pulled Excedrin capsules off the market nationwide, but last week Auburn's cyanide scare spread to yet another brand of pain-killer. During a random check of a pharmacy in the Seattle suburb, Food and Drug Administration officials found poisoned capsules of Anacin-3, made by American Home Products. Within a day, the State of Washington imposed a 90-day ban on the sale of most nonprescription capsule drugs...
While students complained earlier this year about the random, almost haphazard, manner in which tickets were assigned to freshmen, some critics have charged that the selection method for the 350th places too much emphasis on wealthy alumni and their links to the Harvard College Fund, the University's main fundraising organ. Stephenson, the man who is in charge of planning the whole 350th celebration, also served as one of the College Fund's top rainmakers before taking over his current post...
...celebration commission's steering committee. Lining up for the smorgasbord of excitement will be 25 to 50 representatives of each College alumni class, selected by their class committees, as well as representatives from all the graduate schools and 50 members of each current undergraduate class, who were chosen at random. "If they want fun and glitz, they can get it," Glimp says...