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...Most legal experts believe the family court had no jurisdiction in this case, and many were surprised that Judge Rodriguez claimed jurisdiction," says TIME correspondent Viveca Novak. Adds TIME correspondent Adam Cohen, "There's a feeling that sometimes state courts are more beholden to the political system, and we've seen that in this case with questions over the judge's ties to people allied with the boy's family." It emerged Tuesday that a political activist who has acted as a spokesman for the boy's Miami relatives had also served as a political adviser to Judge Rodriguez during...
...streets only to express their political views when they believe the electoral system isn't responding to their concerns. And it's hardly surprising that those on the streets in Seattle may doubt the effectiveness of taking up their grievances at the polls in an electoral system totally beholden to the millions of dollars of corporate "soft money" that greases the wheels of both parties. Long after the ink has dried on the last signature of the last trade deal in Seattle, the aftershocks of the battle for its streets may reverberate in American politics...
Instead of being beholden to powers like Procter & Gamble, the networks get to call the shots. For instance, they're insisting that many start-ups pay in advance. "Everything's sold out," says Fred Reynolds, chief financial officer of CBS, which in addition to its TV empire owns a vast collection of radio stations and billboards. Though most of the old media won't trade ads outright with the dot.coms--the kind of bartering that takes place all the time in cyberspace--they will use the slots as currency. Rather than pay with stock or cash, CBS has swapped nearly...
...take out the typewriter, and probably wrangle with the ribbon far less than I'd sweat blood over a smug squat printer? But, no, it isn't just efficiency, isn't it the pre-modern satisfaction of unfamiliar physical immediacy--actually crunching out the letters, tack tack tack, not beholden to mysterious will o' wisp electrons? Why are we so far removed? Do you know how all the black boxes in your world operate...
...outlaw guns only outlaws will have guns and thinks campaign finance is a complicated issue but simple enough for him. He can afford to think that. "I'm prepared to spend what it takes, $20 million to $40 million," he declares, "and then I won't be beholden to anyone." Does he really have the cash, having gone neck deep into debt in the early '90s? "I could be very liquid very quickly, and I wouldn't have to sell a thing." Take that, Steve Forbes...