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...flat $19.95-per-month, all-you-can-surf price. It sounded terrific, but the glut of new subscribers--along with increased use by 7 million veteran members--made AOL nearly inaccessible at times. One result: last week a subscribers group nailed the service with a $20 million consumer-fraud lawsuit. Just two days after issuing a statement downplaying the suit, AOL--famous for blitzkrieg marketing tactics--reconsidered and announced a full retreat: the company will throttle back efforts to sign up new subscribers and invest $350 million to upgrade its networks. That may not be a fast enough...
...women have not decided whether to take legal action, though their lawyers are exploring a number of options, including civil-rights and breach-of-contract suits. But even without a lawsuit, their departure will undoubtedly force a sharp reexamination of the Citadel's "fourth class system," in which all knobs are subjected to a certain amount of hazing--a system Conroy, Citadel class of '67, described in his book as a "psychic rape." For one thing, even some important alumni are furious about the scandal. "Don't give us heritage and tradition and all that bull___," Hampton Walker, the head...
...PETERSBURG, Florida: Southern supermarket chain Publix will pay $81.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by 150,000 women accusing the company of discrimination by promoting men and leaving women in low-paying jobs. The company will also open its doors for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to monitor its hiring and promotion policies over the next seven years. The settlement closes a case initially brought by eight women who complained that they were repeatedly passed over for raises and higher-level management positions. The EEOC joined their legal battle and expanded it to a class-action...
...YORK: The decision to move to a flat-rate, unlimited-access plan has turned into a horrific nightmare for America Online, the nation's largest Internet provider. Not only must it deal with the threat of lawsuits from members who say the move has congested the network and made it impossible to log on, but it must also suffer the indignity of being ridiculed by the competition before 100 million TV viewers Super Bowl Sunday. Seizing the opportunity to capitalize on AOL's cyber-blunder, CompuServe will air a 30-second commercial depicting 15 seconds of black screen accompanied...
...bill, lawmakers said the act would help promote core values such as honor, courage and commitment in the military. But Bob Guccione, publisher of Penthouse, saw the matter differently. Saying, "the fact that others might find the magazines offensive is not a rationale for barring them," he filed a lawsuit last year to overturn the act. And today, he was victorious. But while the ruling allows Guccione to peddle his goods to lonely military personnel, the implications go much further since it will make it more difficult for similar anti-porn restrictions to apply to the Internet, cable television...