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...course of the investigation, Murdoch disclosed that his Australia-based News Corp. owned 99% of the equity of the original Fox stations, even though it held, through a chain of intermediary companies, only 24% of the stations' voting stock. In its ruling, the commission found that this structure did indeed violate the law, but it then gave Murdoch a choice: submit a plan to reduce News Corp.'s ownership to 25% -- a paper maneuver that Murdoch has said could cost him more than $200 million in capital-gains taxes -- or convince the commission that waiving the requirement would better serve...
Alabama's first chain gang in decades does not yet know the drill. On a lonely stretch of highway near the Alabama-Tennessee border, guards and bloodhounds look on as 320 convicts from the Limestone Correctional Facility try to negotiate the tricky business of walking in unison while shackled. Clad in immaculate white uniforms (emblazoned with the words chain gang lest anyone mistake them for pastry chefs), the men are equipped with a variety of tools and not quite sure whether they should be trimming, digging or picking up litter. One makes a desultory attempt to start up a work...
...Chain gangs are meant to be unpleasant, and this one is succeeding. "We don't like it," complains James Sears, convicted of harassment. "We think it's stupid." Civilians, on the other hand, seem fascinated by the sight of men in chains. Cars stop along the side of the road, and mothers with babies get out to watch. A Limestone County school bus passes by, and the children press their faces to the window...
Once a common sight along Southern highways, chain gangs fell victim to a reform movement that reached its zenith with the 1932 film exposa I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. By the late 1940s, the gangs were well on their way to joining stocks and public floggings in penological limbo. Thus there was little in the way of models when Alabama Governor Fob James decided last year to revive the practice. "We started from scratch," says Limestone warden Ralph Hooks, pointing proudly to a new, specially designed toilet that allows the men to relieve themselves in privacy while...
Thompson, however, might also be the target of political flak resulting from the decision of the supermarket chain Stop and Shop to abandon its site on Memorial Drive...