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...million customers in a $10 billion class action against AT&T, which administered the post-Ma Bell leasing program from 1984 to 1996, and Lucent, its consumer-products spin-off, which runs the program today. The suit, set for trial Aug. 5 in Illinois, alleges that after the Bell breakup, AT&T failed to adequately inform customers of their options to lease, purchase or return their old telephones. Customers who took no action continued to be charged for renting their phones, a fee recorded on their bill in vague line items like TRAD ROT DSK MISC (traditional desktop rotary). Several...
...unfinished projects sitting around," says Cruise. "That drives me insane." He deals with adversity swiftly and without mercy. Last year Kidman told TIME that Cruise's filing for divorce "was a big shock for me." Though both of them have refused to offer reasons for the breakup, it's characteristic of Cruise to make a firm decision, keep his own counsel and move on quickly. Asked why he didn't have the braces put on the back side of his teeth, he replies, "Because it's faster this way, and I really don't care...
...even as they publicly declared that they rarely, if ever, unloaded their shares. Around the same time, Tyco disclosed that it had made some 700 small acquisitions worth $8 billion in the previous three years without informing shareholders. Then in April, the company backed away from a previously announced breakup plan that was supposed to simplify matters, which destroyed any remaining credibility...
...rebound from Puff Daddy to find love with her backup dancer, it hasn't happened yet. The two met on the set of one of her videos and wed in a ceremony that included metal detectors and 10,000 rosebuds. For advice on how to survive the breakup with an extremely famous singer-actress, Judd can perhaps solicit the advice of Carlos Leon, Madonna's ex-boyfriend and former trainer...
...farmland have been inundated in the flooding. NEW ZEALAND Snap Election Prime Minister Helen Clark called an election for 27 July, two months before the end of her government's three-year term. Despite the Labour Party's long lead in opinion polls Clark said that the recent breakup of Labour's coalition partner, the center-left Alliance party, had had an impact on the day-to-day running of parliament. She blamed opposition parties for time wasting, which she said was delaying the passage of important legislation. Bill English, leader of the National Party, disputed the charge, and accused...