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...angry people everywhere find an aspect of the show they don't like. And it might get nasty - after all, if the show's got a cool million to hand out to the last sap left on the island, they can certainly scrape together a handsome out-of-court settlement for some "victim" with restitution on his or her mind. (Too bad they kicked that nice lawyer off the show...
...music-industry bigfoots tiptoe trepidatiously into the digital age, they're obeying an old rule: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Witness Warner Music (corporate cousin of TIME.com) and BMG's settlement Thursday with their old young nemesis, MP3.com, over copyright infringements. The free-music upstart that wanted to turn the industry on its ear is now in bed with two of the industry's Big Five (the rest are expected to follow soon). The outlaw has been deputized. "Whenever the record industry sues someone, you know they're then going to make a deal," says TIME Digital...
...September of 1997, the PBHA Board of Trustees voted 12 to two to approve a compromise settlement that would keep PBHA within the University's purview indefinitely, ostensibly ending a three-year skirmish between students and administrators for control over the University's umbrella service organization...
...peace process and for not moving Washington's embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The irony, not lost on AIPAC officials, is that President Bush consistently took harsher positions on Israel than the Clinton administration has, even threatening to halt U.S. aid in order to stop Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank and East Jerusalem - a form of leverage as unthinkable during Clinton's tenure as moving the embassy would have been on President Bush's watch. (Of course President Bush was substantially driven by a concern, less important to the Clinton administration, to maintain the support of moderate...
...that each cost 50? to make retail for $15. As long as the only way to get that music was through those channels, then Metallica and its label, Electra (owned by Time Warner, TIME's publisher), had a great gig. Last week a Federal Trade Commission settlement with major record companies put a crimp in that business. It said consumers may have overpaid $480 million in the past three years and that the companies would change their pricing policies...