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...obit headlines have it right. For all of Robert Mulligan's impressive credentials in his 40-year career as a director of television and movie dramas, his signature achievement was the 1962 film version of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The picture - which won three Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Gregory Peck, and earned Mulligan his only Oscar nomination - had an immediate and lasting impact. Back then it provided a Hollywood echo of the civil rights agitation that had roiled the South and seized the nation. But Peck's role as Atticus Finch...
...what happens with the recent rescue plan to buy back mortgages," says Fred Arnold, president of the California Association of Mortgage Brokers. In Miami, banks can't wait to throw underwater mortgages into the government's pool. Says Zalewski, "I can see the Federal Government giving them a mulligan and allowing them to sort of do a do-over...
...with the recent rescue plan to buy back mortgages," says Fred Arnold, president of the California Association of Mortgage Brokers. In Miami, banks and distressed homeowners can't wait to throw underwater mortgages into the government's pool. Says Zalewski: "I can see the Federal Government giving them a mulligan and allowing them to sort of a do-over...
...That Britain's approach is less draconian - the BPI, for its part, supports the French approach - reflects the difficult market for the country's ISPs. Internet providers' margins are disappearing, and competition is fierce. ISPs' need to keep customers sweet is "why we have this compromise solution," Mulligan says...
...Stricter rules, though, won't do anything to fix the industry's broader problem. "The big, missing piece of this jigsaw is a compelling alternative" to illegal sites, says Mulligan. Credit the industry, though, with getting closer. Granting cell-phone users months of free access to a catalogue of songs, for instance, Nokia will launch its Comes With Music service later this year, reimbursing artists and their labels from expected new sales of its music-compatible phones; a similar service, available through Korea's LG, comes out this summer. Offers like those won't put an end to all illegal...