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Still, Diller haggled with CBS over the treatment of options to buy 6 million shares of QVC stock. While Diller wanted to swap half the options for new ones in the merged company, Tisch balked at raising the issue before the deal was complete. Diller dropped his request, but it rankled the Tisch camp. "After they got engaged," says a source close to Tisch, "Diller demanded the dowry...
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Prosecutors and defenders battled over the defense's request to independently test blood found at the murder scene and at Simpson's estate. But Superior Court Judge Lance Ito said he would hold off on dividing the samples until he heard from experts on whether this would leave the prosecution with enough samples for its testing. Lawyers on both sides of the case were sharply critical of each other as the day wore on, and rightly so, says TIME law writer Andrea Sachs. "It's not surprising that there's a battle going on the DNA testing," says Sachs...
...request puts Richard in an uncomfortable spot. The more he sees of Anna, the more he likes her; the more he sees of her poetry, the more he detests it. He attends Anna's public reading at the institute, hoping her stuff will sound better than it looks on the page. As he listens, he finds himself in tears: "Different from other work of hers -- yes! Bad in a new way! Worse than before! Hopeless! Useless! What on earth was to be done...
Sympathetic legislators have introduced amendments that would give property owners more leeway in encroaching on animals' habitats. The House has trimmed an Administration request for increased funding that would have made it easier for the Interior Department to enforce the act. At the same time, some of its provisions have been successfully challenged in court...