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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Attorney General Janet Reno announced that the Justice Department is investigating a series of eight fires during the past year at small black churches in rural Alabama and Tennessee. In a January 29 letter to Reno, the NAACP had asked Reno to investigate, charging the frequency and similarity of the fires "make it difficult to rule out the likelihood that at least some of the fires were racially motivated acts of vandalism." "This certainly catches people's eyes here," says Atlanta Bureau chief Adam Cohen. "It's the kind of an issue that really resonates in the South...
...MICHAEL JACKSON AND HIS WIFE Lisa Marie Presley began divorce proceedings last week, his little sister Janet Jackson was renewing her vows in a very big way. Janet's bond, however, was not to a man, but to a company. Virgin Records had just signed her to a new record contract that could be worth as much as $80 million and is, by some accounts, the most lucrative record deal in history. Questions remain about the pre-nups to this corporate marriage. Did she get what she wanted? Was this megadeal a strategic coup for Virgin? Then there's this...
...still, are megadeals really worth it? They have a mixed track record. In 1992 RCA signed the bearded one-note rockers ZZ Top to a $35 million deal--and the band hasn't had a million-selling record since. Janet Jackson's brother Michael has a $60 million megadeal with Sony that looks too princely in retrospect. His latest CD, HIStory, has sold 6 million copies so far, in contrast to 17 million copies worldwide for his previous CD, Dangerous--a considerable letdown after a $30 million ad campaign that was almost as sweeping and fearsome as Germany's taking...
...know that I was going to sell at least 40 million units over five albums." But the only thing worse than signing superstars to deals that are too rich is not signing them at all. No record-company suit wants to be known as the guy who lost Janet Jackson. Plus big names lure other big names. Bruce Springsteen's manager brought him to Columbia in 1972 in large part because the label had Bob Dylan. Says Jackson's lawyer, Don Passman: "There's some trophy value to having artists of this magnitude...
...against the Guatemalan military, was fire-bombed on Friday. The explosion outside the lawyer's Washington home raised fear of a terrorist vendetta. New Jersey Representative Robert Torricelli, a backer of Harbury's efforts to uncover the truth behind the death of her Guatemalan rebel husband, asked Attorney General Janet Reno to open an investigation. A Guatemalan army spokesman denied that the military was involved. On Saturday at least one shot was fired at Harbury's Washington home. She was not at there at the time. The FBI said there appeared to be no connection between the two incidents...