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...from a premium service to basic cable. Disney negotiators deny they had got that far. And certainly after Time Warner announced its merger with America Online on Jan. 10, Disney didn't feel it had a deal. What it had then was leverage. Figuring that TW would tread lightly lest it disturb Washington's slumbering regulators at the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission, Disney asked for that one thing all negotiators hold out for when they've got the upper hand: more...
...Majority Leader Joe Bruno says Rudy is definitely in. But mayoral sources tell CNN that two new hires to the Senate campaign team have been told not to quit their day jobs. So the search is on for someone to throw at Hillary Clinton, who isn't saying anything lest the media storm cloud over Rudy move her way. The choices...
BIZKIT AS USUAL The great promise of the Net--free distribution--has been a nightmare for the music industry. Record companies and artists are worried lest websites let consumers download pirated music for free. But while the big music labels have reacted with lawsuits--including one that last week determined music site mp3.com had violated copyright laws--one band is taking a different path. Limp Bizkit has decided to let Napster, whose software has become a college favorite for playing pirated tunes, sponsor a series of free concerts in July. Says band front man Fred Durst: "We could care less...
...type of antibiotic in 35 years. With microbes becoming ever more resistant to antibiotics--including the drug of last resort, vancomycin--the FDA's nod comes just in time: Zyvox is approved for staph bacteria, pneumonia and other serious infections. Now if only docs won't overprescribe it, lest the bugs develop resistance to it as well...
...draw it out with such beautiful, stark imagery that we cannot help but watch in horrified awe. Although it is Alexander's children who are murdered in Kennedy's play, it is Alexander herself that the American educational system tries to kill though an unnameable suffocation. And lest we think America has moved beyond such quietly murderous systems of racism, at least in its highest and most enlightened institutions, Stern places prominently in the very center of the set a clock that tells the correct time as the performance progresses. The real violence in Kennedy's play is as present...