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DIED. EDOARDO AGNELLI, 46, only son of Gianni Agnelli, head of the Fiat automotive empire; in an apparent leap from a viaduct known as the "bridge of suicides"; in Turin, Italy. This is only the latest tragedy for the Agnellis; three years ago, Edoardo's younger cousin Giovanni, Fiat heir apparent, died of stomach cancer...
...Bush surrogate-in-chief James Baker kicked things off: No fair. No fair, he said, "to rewrite the election law by judicial fiat after the election has been held." No fair, he said, "to usurp the duties of the executive branch." No fair to "change the rules - either in the middle of the game, or after the game has already been played." And no fair to let a dimple count as a vote...
...House to John F. Kennedy's '40 mistresses, Jackie O.'s pillbox hats and J. Edgar Hoover's wiretaps. Instead, we have both campaigns girding themselves up for scorched-earth strategies, in which the fate of the presidency will be decided by poorly punched ballots, recount deadlines and judicial fiat...
...long way from that base to a real solution, however. Though other music companies last week voiced cautious approval of the Bertelsmann move, there is considerable resentment. Indeed, it took intense negotiations last month and, ultimately, management fiat for Middelhoff to get the support of top executive Strauss Zelnick at his own BMG. So far, nobody has indicated any willingness to drop the legal action against Napster. "We're still not on Napster's side," says Zelnick, laughing. "We're suing Napster. But we are also on the side of creating an array of legitimate distribution alternatives...
...already established ideological preferences. On the Republican side of the aisle, principled partisans who aren't also wealthy tend to derive their conservatism from religious fundamentalism. Like characters in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, these social conservatives revel in Bush's pledge to uphold "traditional values" by legislative fiat. Their ideology of government-mandated morality includes, among other things, rights for the unborn but not for all the born...