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...miles out, as they tied Puerto Rican flags to the bow and played cat and mouse with Coast Guard ships patrolling the channel, the Rosas saw more than 15 other Vieques fishing boats slicing through the translucent blue water to join them. "This is the Borinquen I want to see," said Jose, using the indigenous name for Puerto Rico. "We're learning to stand up for ourselves, for once...
...issues of the fight were, in the end, less important than the tactics. In December, according to Time Warner, after months of negotiation, the two companies had come to a deal regarding the fees TW would pay to carry various Disney-owned channels on its cable systems and--most notably--to convert the Disney Channel from a premium service to basic cable. Disney negotiators deny they had got that far. And certainly after Time Warner announced its merger with America Online on Jan. 10, Disney didn't feel it had a deal. What it had then was leverage. Figuring that...
...that Disney wins prizes for anything other than superior corporate mud wrestling. By provoking Time Warner into a foolhardy act that outraged both companies' customers, Disney invited onlookers--from channel surfers to Washington watchdogs--to turn away in disgust. Jeffrey Chester, executive director of the Center for Media Education, a Washington advocacy group, says, "Disney and Time Warner deserve a consumer award. They have taken an issue that was the preserve of techies and lobbyists and thrown it onto the front page...
Meanwhile, Time Warner and Disney will soon be back at the table. In New York City, TW has offered to make nice by giving all its cable customers a refund on two full days of basic service, plus a free month of a premium channel they weren't already receiving (the latter is a tactic that used to be called sales promotion). In Washington chief Disney lobbyist Preston Padden was serving up unctuousness by the ladle. After the FCC officially scolded Time Warner in midweek, Padden intoned, "We are incredibly grateful to the people at the FCC, who were placed...
...killed by guns has fallen--down almost 20% from 1993 to 1998. Among children too gun deaths have fallen, tumbling 28% from a peak in 1994 to 1997, when 4,223 kids died by gunshot. But highly publicized shootings like those at Columbine have changed perceptions. A recent TIME/Discovery Channel poll showed that 70% of parents feel violence in schools has increased. What's more, Americans no longer see gun threats against kids as a problem confined to inner cities. While violent crime has fallen sharply in urban areas--down 10% from 1997 to 1998--it has slipped just...