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...Colombia. Washington, of course, is planning to spend more than $1 billion in helping Colombia fight the FARC as part of its anti-drug efforts, so it was obviously very irritated that Peru, which has been a key ally in the war on drugs, appears to have been a conduit for weapons to the guerrillas. Fujimori moved to ditch Montesinos when a videotape was leaked to a local TV station showing the intelligence chief bribing an opposition congressman to side with Fujimori. But it's not clear which man will come out on top in the battle...
Napster, which was developed by 19-year-old Shawn Fanning in 1999, lost a key early ruling in the case. It had tried to argue that it was a "mere conduit" for the songs exchanged over it. Just as a phone company is not liable for a threatening phone call made on its lines, Napster argued that it shouldn't be responsible for piracy its users engaged in. But Judge Patel rejected that claim. Napster responded with a bold move of its own. It hired star litigator David Boies--fresh from his victory in the Microsoft antitrust case--to represent...
...grocery store. They bonded over 12-bar blues and had almost immediate success writing for black artists. "These were called 'race records,'" Stoller recalls, "meaning they were played only on stations that catered to a black audience." It was the young songwriters' destiny to become a major conduit of black music to white audiences...
...buying its own cable monopolies. And many are worried that AOL will forget its roots. Will the temptation to build its broadband network to protect itself against unallied content and new innovation be too great? Will AOL, like every other large-scale network that has controlled content and conduit, pick a closed rather than an open architecture? Will AOL become what it eats...
...surfaced recently in Pakistan, India and Australia. South Africa's captain, Hansie Cronje, supposedly a paragon of the game's finest virtues, has fallen into disgrace, his fate sealed by an inquiry this week that heard other players on the national team testify that their captain had been the conduit for match-fixing offers to his team from bookmakers...