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...that hit the news last week is the fee structure. Many of these "stations" are geeky mom-and-pop operations that don't charge for their music and don't pay for it either, an arrangement the record labels are trying to rectify by imposing a royalty of fourteen-hundredths of a cent per song per listener. That may not sound like much, but it's enough to drive the small guys out of business. Last Wednesday a few hundred of them tried to draw attention to their plight by going silent...
...race. They were thinking about keeping their own jobs and about the state congressional delegation. Pennsylvania lost two congressional seats in the 2000 census, going from 21 to 19. The current delegation has eleven Republicans and ten Democrats. Legislators' final calculations predicted voters in the redrawn districts would send fourteen Republicans and five Democrats to Washington in 2003. How did they arrive at these figures? Using standard redistricting tools: they redrew the districts to make sure Republican incumbents had solid Republican majorities in their new areas, and in two cases, put two Democratic incumbents in one district to force them...
...legislators thought the court was being nitpicky, but in a brilliant move, they decided to make the situation work for them. They drew up a new plan which shifted enough voters around to make the districts more equitable, without actually changing the odds that Republicans would win fourteen of the districts. And then the state senate inserted a provision moving primary elections from May 21st to July 16th. Republican leaders said it was to give voters time to adjust to the new boundaries. Privately they admitted they were pushing the date back to hurt the two Democrats running for governor...
...Fourteen black and Latino student groups from across the University collected more than 400 signatures yesterday in a campus-wide petition drive urging Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 to stay at Harvard...
...Rock Entertainment, was appalled when he saw his studio's film Proof of Life. It wasn't that he could predict the movie's demise at the box office. "I thought, 'Wow, why is Meg Ryan smoking up a storm?'" Reiner says. "It didn't add to the plot." Fourteen months later, Castle Rock now has a policy of discouraging tobacco use. Any actor, director or screenwriter who wants to depict it must first meet with Reiner. "They have to make a really good case," he says. "Movies are basically advertising cigarettes to kids...