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DIED. REED IRVINE, 82, media watchdog who, in 1969, founded Accuracy in Media, an early protester of "liberal bias" in the media; in Rockville, Md. Among Irvine's targets were CNN's Gulf War reporter Peter Arnett (who Irvine said aired "Saddam's version of the truth"), Hillary Clinton ("kooky") and Dan Rather. He dubbed AIM's persistent call for the CBS anchor's ouster the Can Dan campaign...
...beer bash to "toast diversity" and signing a petition calling for Hastings to stand by its policy. Dina Haddad of the Hastings chapter is hoping the group's legal winning streak will continue. But until the issue is resolved, she says, "we'll just keep on praying." --By Peter Bailey...
...grown daughters, only Elisabeth, 36, has extensive business experience, and she is happy running her own British production company, says a News spokesman. Murdoch declined to comment for this story. But Wall Street insiders say that should anything happen to him in the near term, News' highly regarded president, Peter Chernin, would run the company. Eventually, though, the Murdoch boys would be in charge. "It's a known evil going in," analyst Richard Greenfield of Fulcrum Partners says of any family-controlled business. "If you don't like it, you shouldn't own the stock...
SpaceShipOne is set to become the first in a new line of space-tourism craft coming in 2007. "It's a spaceship that fits in your two-car garage, and you can take it to space every other day," says X Prize founder Peter Diamandis. "That's pretty cool...
What if there were a game in which every choice you made-- even the seemingly insignificant ones--nudged you slightly toward good or evil? That's the moral question that has haunted legendary designer Peter Molyneux for many years, and Fable (for Xbox; $44.95) is his latest attempt to grapple with it. Early on, the scene is set in the village of your character's childhood, where you have the freedom to choose whether or not to take the side of a bully, rat out a cheating husband or dutifully watch a valuable set of crates. The consequences stretch into...