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...have vowed to pass measures to address Berlusconi's conflict of interest as owner of Italy's three main private television channels. Will you force him to choose between politics and media ownership? I don't want to pass a punitive law or use politics as a vendetta. But a simple antitrust law is where we must start. Democracies must have equilibrium ... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized...
...sooner were at least three men, despite their protests of innocence, beaten so badly that they were taken away by ambulance to a hospital. Then a rumor broke out that another informer had escaped into a neighboring four-story building. The crowd surrounded the building, and demanded that the owner open up. The owner shouted back that the informer had gone, but the crowd did not believe him. Bricks, iron rods, and stones started flying towards the second floor of the building, which houses a coaching center called "Bright Future Institute"; women began shrieking from inside. The windows were smashed...
...does. Slingbox specifically avoids the P2P (peer-to-peer) reach associated with music-sharing services like Napster, which got in trouble by allowing users to share material illegally. "We allow only one stream at a time,'' he notes. That is, a Slingbox routes a TV signal only to its owner. Users cannot configure it to spread the signal out to other recipients. Still, the temptations are strong. At MipTV in Cannes, Krikorian was mobbed with interest after showing off the device. A French commercial broadcaster, to take one example, was asking to co-brand the Slingbox in France. The more...
...that if there's a break in the coalition, I have no other alternative but to go back to the voters. No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired. You have vowed to pass measures to address Berlusconi's conflict of interest as owner of Italy's three main private television channels. Will you force him to choose between politics and owning TV? I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta. But a simple antitrust law is where we must start. Democracies must have equilibrium...
SHERRY WESLEY, an employee at a Santa Ana, Calif., civic building to whom a homeless man handed a wallet with $900 that he had found in a nearby trash bin. Wesley tracked down the owner, who rewarded the man with...