Word: legalism
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Prolific novelist Lisa Scottoline (16 books and counting) has been called "the female John Grisham." Like Grisham, Scottoline is a lawyer, and her best-selling thrillers star a number of memorable legal eagles as heroines. In Scottoline's new novel, Look Again, however, protagonist Ellen Gleeson is a reporter, not an attorney. And after Gleeson spots a "Have you seen this child?" notice about a boy who looks uncannily like her own adopted three-year-old son, the race is on. (That's only Page 1!) TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs reached Scottoline (pronounced Scot...
...Online advertising revenue may not soon supplant DVD sales in developed countries. But, where legal, high-quality DVDs are either unavailable or have simply lost out to cheap, low-quality pirated ones, whatever little revenue may come in from the Web is worth it. American viewership is accelerating its decades-long flight to cable channels. In the short term, networks need whatever revenue they can get. Internet broadcasts point the way forward. Active experimentation on a global scale is the only way to refine the current model of online advertising and distribution into something that can support the costly...
...others. Even in America, distribution of cable shows is so inefficient that domestic viewers resort to piracy. The networks’ shocking response to such desperate demand for their products has been not to expand accessibility and profit, but to clamp down on it. Consider Viacom’s legal showdown with YouTube. And has Disney confused itself with DeBeers? The profound shortage of common sense in such moves—given that the fundamental driver of a content creator’s success is the size of its audience—is reflected in the black market?...
...former members claim that the MEK is a cult, one that isolates adherents from their families, seeks to control them by limiting access to outside information, and prevents them from having sex. Indeed, there are no children at Camp Ashraf. The youngest residents are in their 20s, something MEK legal advisor Behzad Saffari says is because "military camps are not places for family life...
...armored vehicles and other forms of support. Although in recent months Camp Ashraf's residents have swapped their once-mandatory olive green military fatigues for civilian garb, both Iraq and the U.S State Department consider the MEK a terrorist group. In 2003, the U.S military disarmed Ashraf. (After a legal battle, the European Union removed the organization from its terrorist list in January; the United Kingdom...