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...weeks ago, the idea that the recording industry would embrace Michael Robertson as one of its own was about as ridiculous as, well, as the notion that the leaders of North and South Korea would shake hands. Robertson, founder and CEO of MP3.com was trying to turn the music business on to the MP3 revolution, but all the suits saw was a maverick who went around claiming that they were dinosaurs who didn't get it. And when he launched the My.MP3.com service that allowed users to copy their CDs into his online folders and listen to them from anywhere...
Illinois Governor George Ryan, a Republican, triggered the first major shift in death-penalty politics last January, when he declared a moratorium on executions in his state after no fewer than 13 death-row inmates were freed when new evidence cast doubt on their guilt. Then came Pat Robertson, the religious broadcaster, who called for a national moratorium. Next Wednesday, Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Republican Gordon Smith of Oregon will introduce a major bill in the Senate that would compel states to use DNA testing in all relevant cases. Also next week a highly touted study...
...free-music clearinghouse, but really wanted to be its own little label. It wasn't happening. Now Mp3.com's revolutionary days look to be over - "The digital music space is still in its infancy. We look forward to working with Warner to expand its boundaries," said CEO Michael Robertson - and its days as a dot-com advance guard for the Big Five are about to begin. Napster, here they come...
...turquoise-and-white 1957 Chevy to 16th Street with Chambliss, Cash and Cherry. While the others waited, Cherry placed a 12-stick package of dynamite in a window well outside the 16th Street Baptist Church. The bomb exploded eight hours later, killing Denise McNair, 11, and Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Addie Mae Collins, all 14. The martyred girls horrified the nation and transfigured the civil rights movement...
...agreed with a reporter that the meeting was like taking medicine? The Senator insists that he was joking, and Bush is said to believe him. The worst moment was Bush's. At an event designed to show mutual admiration, the G.O.P. nominee ducked a question about the Rev. Pat Robertson, who recently warned that McCain would be a "very dangerous" Vice President. McCain, though disappointed, understands the bargain Bush has made with the preacher. "Would I have preferred if he'd said Robertson is a turkey? Sure!" McCain says. "Obviously he didn't want to confront Robertson. But why should...