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...announced that he was running for Governor in 1997 when he was hit by two scandals: his ex-wife's devastating book detailing the breakup of their marriage, and the disclosure that his brother and campaign manager, Michael, had been having an affair with a teenage babysitter. His cousin John Jr. wrote that Joe and Michael were "poster boys for bad behavior," and Joe's lead in the polls evaporated. He withdrew from the primary and, after Michael was killed in a skiing accident the following New Year's Eve, from politics entirely. He again came close to running...
George has been at times a difficult man to root for. Had it not been for Yoko, the Beatles’ breakup might well have been pinned on George's increasing assertiveness as a songwriter and increasing inability to get along with Paul. George was the colorless Beatle, the dubious target of allegations of plagiarism, the man whose wife so cruelly inspired his lovestruck best friend Eric Clapton to write “Layla.” (And when the couple divorced and Clapton married Patti Harrison, who could not help but feel that the better man had finally...
...work out. Wall Street decided that the $56 billion Armstrong had paid to scuttle Comcast's planned $48 billion MediaOne purchase was a fool's price, and AT&T has been struggling ever since - selling off $18 billion of those assets and ultimately embarking on the ongoing tracking-stock breakup plan that haunts the company now - to get its stock price back...
Microsoft wants no more than a "conduct" remedy--restrictions on how it behaves in the future. But at least some states will probably push for a "structural" remedy--like splitting Microsoft. "The court gave some cautionary language about breakup, but I don't think they fully took it off the table," Iowa attorney general Tom Miller, who has been a leader among the AGs, told TIME. "One of the ways you get to a structural remedy is by process of elimination. You see that other remedies won't work...
...Duly noted. Since 1990, Roberts has generated nearly $1.5 billion in domestic ticket sales. But even as she has become a regular part of our Friday nights at the movies, she's become an integral part of our weekdays at the water cooler--most recently because of her breakup with actor Benjamin Bratt, her boyfriend of nearly four years. (They actually split not long after the Oscars, but she still calls him "the greatest guy.") We follow her personal travails because we project our dreams onto movie stars, and so we want her to live happily ever after. A decade...