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This latest sally in the news wars has sparked an extraordinary corporate feud. Murdoch has charged that Time Warner reneged on an agreement to carry the Fox News Channel on its cable systems, opting for MSNBC instead. (Time Warner had been required by the Federal Trade Commission to pick up one CNN competitor in order to win approval of the Turner merger.) This was a blow to Murdoch's hopes of expansion, since it means he will be blocked from Time Warner's almost 12 million cable homes--most crucially those in New York City, where Fox is based. Last...
...allies for bringing one of the book's co-authors, columnist Alexander Cockburn, into the state to replay the rumors. Johnson points out that Cockburn's address to a private club in Sioux Falls last month was arranged by former South Dakota Senator James Abourezk, who has his own feud with Pressler. Besides, Johnson says, "if Pressler hadn't made such a big deal about it, there wouldn't be 50 South Dakotans who ever heard of the book...
...death of Shakur, who sold more than 10 million albums, constitutes a defining nightmare for a gangsta-rap world whose paranoid royalty seem increasingly compelled to live out the grotesque violence that fills its art. Many initially connected the murder to the rapper's vocal participation in an ugly feud between his California record label, Death Row, and its East Coast competitor, Bad Boy. It was Death Row president Marion ("Suge") Knight who was driving his black BMW after the Tyson fight, with Shakur standing up through the sun roof. Four men rolled up in a white Cadillac, fired about...
...stuck. He arrived for sentencing in a wheelchair; days earlier, he had been shot five times in a Manhattan "robbery" he regarded as a failed hit. Out on appeal last October, he sought protection under the wing of the massive, much feared Knight, who was deeply embroiled in his feud with Bad Boy and the East. In two years the conflict had moved far beyond artistic issues to beatings and perhaps worse: Knight is thought to hold Bad Boy head Sean ("Puffy") Combs indirectly responsible for the shooting death of a friend in Atlanta in 1995. One of Shakur...
...public used to call us the Heads," says Byrne. "And like it or not, the band was identified with my voice and my style. People will get confused." While band member Chris Frantz says he's surprised by Byrne's action, Byrne says it's the culmination of a feud that began when the band broke up, a process that was "like being with a wife beater who won't divorce...