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...Brian Wilson’s move from eccentricity to paranoia. Maybe it was the drug abuse, maybe the pressure of his bandmate and cousin Mike Love to stick to the commercially-proven formula of cars and surf, or maybe it was the added stress of a prolonged contract lawsuit, but Wilson’s behavior became stranger. Fearing his house was bugged, he held business meetings in his swimming pool. He suspected that he was being frightened by Phil Spector-hired “mind gangsters.” Studio musicians donned plastic fire hats while recording a section predictably...
Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, speaking at a protest organized by student gay rights activists Friday afternoon, called on his colleagues to file a lawsuit against the Pentagon to block military recruiters from forcing their way onto Harvard’s campus...
Last October, a majority of the Law School faculty signed a letter urging University President Lawrence H. Summers to “join or initiate” litigation challenging the Pentagon policy. Dershowitz and others had also called for such a lawsuit at a rally in October...
Kerry was answering a charge that he opposed tort reform and that "frivolous" lawsuits were costing the government $28 billion. Kerry's percentage figure was in the ballpark; health-care spending in 2002 was $1.6 trillion, and according to the Congressional Budget Office, malpractice costs were an estimated 1.5% of the total. Moreover, several studies have concluded that capping malpractice-lawsuit awards would have a negligible impact on health-care costs...
...wants to waste a day downloading a movie? "I've frequently suggested they give up on all this copy protection because it doesn't make a bit of difference," says Fred von Lohmann, a lawyer for the Electronic Freedom Foundation who defended Grokster against the movie industry's lawsuit. "It's not all the fancy locks that protect the industry. It's a great product at a great price...