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...news has been anything but good this year for Dow Jones & Co., owner of the Wall Street Journal, among other media properties. First, a small but determined group of stockholders, including some of the family that controls the company's voting shares, raised a ruckus about its weak performance, particularly at its Telerate unit. Then last week the company's star attraction, the Journal, got whacked with a $223 million libel judgment, the largest ever, courtesy of a Houston jury. The panel found the paper and one of its reporters, Laura Jereski, had libeled the investment firm MMAR Group...
Beijing may raise a ruckus against Western countries that take in Zhang and the others, but privately the government may also be relieved. Kenneth Chow, a Hong Kong lawyer on Beijing's handpicked advisory committee, says the dissidents would probably be warned to toe the line. If they don't, "you either arrest them or let them wander about and create damage. You don't want to do either, so the best way is someone else's taking them...
...Germany their faith in the preachings of science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard is politically taboo; Scientology is deemed not a religion but a suspect movement whose activities verge on the dangerous edges of extremism. Now Germany's stern attitudes are raising something of an international ruckus, fueled in equal parts by the assertive Church of Scientology, Hollywood luminaries and a U.S. government caught with conflicting objectives...
...last week reality--and a major ruckus--set in. Once again battle lines were drawn, with parents and other child advocates on one side and a phalanx of TV executives on the other. Poll data were cited, lawsuits threatened, rhetoric ratcheted up--much of it coming from Washington politicians, who know that standing up for children against the big bad wolf of television is politically a no-lose proposition--even after an election...
While AT&T might respond by attempting to buy a Baby Bell, any such move would raise a ruckus with regulators. In the short term, says Kevin Gooley, a telecommunications analyst for Standard & Poor's, "it doesn't bode well...