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...broadcasters choose the second alternative, they will effectively be relieved of their public-interest obligations, but in return they will have to pay a percentage of their annual revenues-between 1% and 3%-for spectrum leases. The money from those leases should, in turn, be required by statute to go to the production of children's programming on public broadcasting...
...send the kids to them. So far, 60 Haitian children have been returned. But last week Florida Rural Legal Services released a report condemning the repatriations. "The claim that what is being done is in the best interest of the children is a farce," said Niels Frenzen, a public-interest lawyer who helped track down some of the returnees and found that many were homeless or living in squalor with strangers. "There is only one humane solution to this problem. Close down the camp and accept the generosity of the families and agencies willing to care for these young people...
Murdoch says he will take the public-interest route -- he's got until the middle of next month to make his case. Several Washington media lawyers and executives say his success is virtually assured. Indeed, in remarks made at the fcc meeting, three commissioners telegraphed their belief that Murdoch had already succeeded. In launching a fourth U.S. TV network, he satisfied a long-sought commission goal of stirring increased competition among the networks. Commissioner James Quello, a critic of the investigation, stated that he would like to waive the 25% limit immediately. He asked, "Why mess with success...
News of the Committee was likely leaked byMack's former lawyer Daniel P. Sheehan, who actsas legal counsel for the Christic Institute, aWashington public-interest law firm...
...Berenice)--who, like her father, is totally corrupt. She is good at dancing on tables and at rather taxing bouts of sex. She and her fancy Manhattan friends, "a club of frauds who think they are the center of the universe," love that sort of thing. Jack, a dogged public-interest lawyer, falls hard for Burry. Before long he is doing dirty tricks for Early's henchmen and bungling them: he snaps a photo of an opponent's "mistress" who turns out to be his sister. At the time Jack's only thought was that the man could have done...