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Last week television networks were the hot property. No sooner had Disney thrown in its lot with Capital Cities/ABC than Westinghouse placed a bet with CBS to acquire the network after striking a deal with its president, Laurence Tisch, for $5.4 billion. The deals are dazzling not for their novelty--the mood to merge has been upon much of corporate America this year, with announced deals for the month of July alone totaling $50 billion--but for what they say about the value of networks in today's marketplace. CBS may be the third-rated network of the Big Three...
...Bush Administration had created a ground in which nobody could put together their sides for a strong enough opposition," Sharp said. "The environmentalists were thrown off guard by the president's bill because they saw the Bush Administration as a continuation of president [Ronald] Reagan whom they viewed as the enemy...
...provoked an outcropping of frivolous lawsuits. In Indiana a customer filed a complaint against a restaurant because a waiter refused to carve the meat for the man's ailing mother. A Louisiana television anchorwoman sued for time off to receive fertility treatments. In each case, the charges were thrown out. What infuriates ADA advocates is that most of the 45,000 complaints filed over the past three years with the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission have been brought by people citing types of disabilities--back problems, depression, neurological disorders--that received scant mention when the ADA was crafted...
Prosecutors hoping that tapes of lewd phone conversations between U.S. Representative Mel Reynolds and Beverly Heard would cinch their case were thrown off when the 18-year old girl invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer questions. Her attorney explained her actions by citing worries that Heard's testimony might differ from what she said six months earlier, when she recanted accusations Reynolds had sex with her. Why she recanted is unclear. Charged withcriminal sexual assault,aggravated criminal sexual abuse, child pornography and obstruction of justice, Reynolds, a 43-year old Rhodes scholar, on Tuesday listened stone-faced...
...possible mistrial in theSusan Smithmurder trial was thrown out by Circuit Judge William Howard, who ruled that an accidental contact between a juror and a member of the Smith family--apparently in a hotel laundry room--was of no importance. Sara Singleton, grandmother of Susan Smith's ex-husband, said "it was innocent. . . it was stupid," in comments that seemed to confirm she was the family member in question. The sentencing phase of the trial, which began today, could last up to a week. Smith was found guilty of two counts of murder last Saturday...