Word: libelous
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This was the second article in c't on the program. The first, in October, called it "placebo software"--a catchy appellation that triggered a libel suit and a temporary restraining order. In response to the court challenge, c't's editor, Christian Persson, and one of its writers, Ingo Storm, engaged the services of a software engineer, and together they went through the program line by line to try to plumb its inner workings. Their findings: the one patch of SoftRAM 95 code remotely resembling a compression algorithm never gets used by the program. Moreover, the two subprograms actually...
...which hinted at harm to his two children if he didn't "leave tobacco alone.'' B&W responded to the Daily News article by threatening legal action against CBS News for leaking it. A lawyer for the tobacco company warned that the network would be held responsible for any libel contained in the transcript...
...rare gesture, ABC apologized twice on-air for stating on a newsmagazine show that two tobacco companies, R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris, had added extra nicotine to their cigarettes. The apologies were part of a settlement by ABC and the two companies that had sued the network for libel. ABC will also pay their legal expenses. But the network stands by the "principal thrust" of its report--that cigarette makers use reconstituted tobacco to control the level of nicotine in cigarettes...
...suit, Dwight N. Cooper '95 charges that he was a victim of reverse discrimination, wrongful discharge and denial of equal protection, intentional defamation of character, libel and slander, invasion of privacy, breach of fiduciary duty and professional negligence, conspiracy to deprive right to educational liberty and free speech, intentional infliction of pain and suffering and injunctive relief, according to court documents...
...large retrospective jointly organized by London's Tate Gallery, Paris' Musee d'Orsay and the National Gallery of Art in Washington (where it is on view through Aug. 20) offers the evidence. Whistler was an artist whose legend as wit, dandy and aesthetic kamikaze--for what was his libel suit against the critic John Ruskin but a suicide mission, compelled by his own claims to "Southern honor"?--continued after his death and became a barrier to appraisal of his work. One would prefer to think that Whistler the artist flies free of Whistler the celebrity, the "personality...