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...intention to air the short film on its Website. A Superior Court judge denied the request, in part because the Lees undermined their invasion of privacy claim by quite publicly discussing the contents of the tape on Howard Stern's radio show. In December the couple reached a settlement with IEG, the terms of which neither side will discuss--although IEG now heralds the video it is selling as the "Only Legal Version" of "the most controversial tape ever made...
...court-affirmed agreement, which resulted from settlement talks between state officials and the American Civil Liberties Union, contains some of the strongest gay-rights language ever approved by a state. While most pro-gay legislation has banned job and housing discrimination against gays, the adoption agreement enters more fraught territory. It not only says gay couples must be treated as full equals with straight couples but does so in the delicate arena of child rearing. Although most Americans oppose discrimination against lesbians and gays, the country has been less certain that they should be allowed to marry and adopt. Last...
...Tardiest Admission Thirty-three years after the Surgeon General first issued his warning, a cigarette company admitted that smoking causes cancer. As part of a legal settlement, the comparatively small Liggett Group also conceded that tobacco companies have aimed pitches at teenagers--a charge its bigger brethren still deny...
Reality bites. Where was the cosmic fairness in this year's murder of Bill Cosby's son Ennis, a beloved young teacher? Did the June settlement by the states with the cigarette companies hit the bastards hard enough? What was happening in the never ending investigation of the crash of TWA Flight 800? Where is the justice for the killer(s) of JonBenet Ramsey, whose case seems to stew forever? Where is the justice for Pol Pot, the most odious mass murderer since Hitler and Stalin, who was brought into public view on videotape in a Khmer Rouge show trial...
...roofed, three-story monastery beside a winding path. Other signs appeared. The embalmed body of the departed ruler seemed to move from pointing south to pointing toward the northeast. And auspicious cloud formations also appeared in the northeast. When a search party of monks arrived at the 20-family settlement of Takster, in the northeastern province of Amdo, its members were startled to find a gold-roofed, three-story monastery beside a winding path. They were even more taken aback when a two-year-old boy greeted them with familiarity and addressed their leader, disguised as a servant...