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...about 7,000 banks), DOJ lawyers have brought monopoly charges against the credit peddlers. In a case opening Monday in New York's District Court, the Justice Department will make a case that the card companies are in fact one monopolistic presence; according to the suit, Visa and MasterCard crush competition by blacklisting banks who offer cards from other networks. That means any bank brave (or foolish) enough to send customers cards emblazoned with an American Express or Discover logo may find itself effectively frozen out of industry decision-making operations...
...haven't talked to Seattle about my role yet," he said. "I'm just going to be excited with anything I do, and I'm not above anything. I'll be excited to do anything. To run down the field and crush someone, that's what I'll be excited...
What began as an elementary school crush--he began writing the admissions office after watching an episode of "Doogie Howser, M.D." where a Veritas shield was displayed prominently--suddenly turned serious. The College added Villarreal to its mailing list...
...beats, has already gone platinum. The rave scene is catching on with a new generation of fans, Moby believes, because it offers an alternative to today's version of bubblegum. "The consolidation of all the different record companies under big multinational parent companies," he says, has spawned the current crush of mass-produced teen pop acts. "Your BMGs, your Sonys, your Time Warners...nothing against these companies, but they buy music companies and they expect music to perform the way that, say, snack cakes or liquid paper performs. There's so much commercial emphasis on disposable pop music that...
...mythology (Jason and the Argonauts, Arabian Nights) and classic television. For TV is the closest thing to our own mythology, a tradition of shared tales reflecting our values. Yea, just as chaos doth follow when gods lie with mortals, so doth woe betide the Bradys when Marcia gets a crush on Davy Jones...