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...Consider companies like FileOpen Systems, a tiny New York firm that sells extra e-book security for scientific journals and financial newsletters--small publishers that really need paying customers. Last year ElcomSoft produced a piece of software that cracked FileOpen's code--potentially driving it out of business. CEO Sanford Bingham spent hours on the phone to Moscow in vain. "If they were doing this with credit cards, nobody would have any qualms about seeing this guy in jail," he says. "Ultimately there has to be a legal sanction...
...Consider companies like FileOpen Systems, a tiny New York firm that sells extra e-book security for scientific journals and financial newsletters--small publishers that really need paying customers. Last year ElcomSoft produced a piece of software that cracked FileOpen's code--potentially driving it out of business. CEO Sanford Bingham spent hours on the phone to Moscow in vain. "If they were doing this with credit cards, nobody would have any qualms about seeing this guy in jail," he says. "Ultimately there has to be a legal sanction...
...arch-Archie is Alf Garnett, a spiteful, bitter dockside worker in "Till Death Us Do Part," the model for "Family." The fathers of Sanford and son are Steptoe and son, on the BBC series of the same name, a pair of cockney rag and bone men who batter themselves and each other relentlessly against a dead end of life. Both Yorkin and Lear adaptations follow the same recipe: take one BBC show, add the milk of human kindness and stir for 30 minutes. "One of our major concerns was not to make Sanford look too grim," says Yorkin. "The Steptoe...
...Quite a while, no doubt. Already in the works is a one-hour special on Duke Ellington. Lear is, preparing yet another sitcom series for a possible January debut on CBS, this one about a black family named Jones. "Sanford isn't trying to reflect real ghetto life," Lear maintains. "Compared with ghetto dwellers, those two men live very, very well. What I would like to do is a real black-ghetto family show...
...looking into the company's accounting practices, but in defending her turf, Wachner could well redefine tenacious. And she'll have help. Her circle of support includes such corporate heavyweights as former American Express chairman Harvey Golub, a new Warnaco board member, and Citigroup boss Sanford Weill, whose Citibank, along with J.P. Morgan Chase, is part of a collection of banks that will provide Wachner with $600 million in debtor-in-possession financing. That will buy her a few months to try to clean things up. "Under my leadership over the past 15 years, Warnaco has built the best brands...