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...rival papers scorned Burrell's account as a fantasy, quoting Palace sources as saying the Queen doesn't even spend three hours with her husband. The Sunday News of the World and its stablemate the Sun (circ.: 3.7 million), the Mirror's archrival, have done the most to crack the Mirror. They managed to procure a statement Burrell had prepared for his lawyers' eyes only - the lawyers say it must have been stolen - full of salacious details: Diana once greeted her lover Hasnat Khan, a heart surgeon, at Kensington Palace stark naked except for diamond earrings and a fur coat...
...Campaign, argues that laws aimed at hard-core criminals can end up hurting people making copies for their own use, and impinge on privacy. Software providers argue that without stiff penalties, software piracy is bound to get worse. "It's great that governments and law enforcement are starting to crack down but we still have a long way to go," says a senior Microsoft anti-piracy attorney. "Hard-core criminals will not be deterred as long as the profits are high and the risks are low." Piracy charges don't seem to have deterred Murray-Cowan. As long as laws...
...children, its young ones, its minors, its youthful, innocent, virgin school kids, the ones that smile at you as you pass bus stops all over this country. What has Eminem done for them? He’s turned them into a bunch of gun-toting, pot-smoking, crack-snacking lunatics. Frankly, a man (or an overgrown adolescent) who can’t win over his mother’s love definitely doesn’t deserve my support. This guy needs a bit of Ritalin and a whole bunch of Prozac, not another glowing review from some crackpot critic...
...only did we see you crack when you went crazy, we saw something beautiful when you got well,” said Kurt Vonnegut. “The recovery was worth...
...actions of Congress prove no better. A budget stand-off between Congress and the president threatens efforts to crack down on corporate wrongdoing. Congress has not yet funded the SEC for fiscal year 2003, which began Oct. 1, nor has it approved any future funding for the new Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, which the Accounting Reform Act created to monitor the accounting industry. In fact, the House, where appropriations bills originate, has yet to even introduce a bill to fund the SEC for 2003, let alone vote...