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...with titles like A Few Good Men, Top Gun and The Firm. Now he's filed a $100 million lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against a porn star who may or may not have told a French magazine that Cruise was his lover. According to the suit, CHAD SLATER, who performs under the name Kyle Bradford, told Actustar that he had "a continuing homosexual affair with Tom Cruise and that this affair was discovered by Mr. Cruise's wife, leading to their divorce." Slater issued a complete denial. "I have never been to France, I have never spoken with...
...Concern over DVT has also brought out the lawyers. Last year the Australian law firm Slater & Gordon launched a class action suit on behalf of DVT sufferers against several major airlines. Attorney Lars Lewis of Paris is taking legal action against four airlines for a thrombosis he claims he developed following a series of medium-haul flights across Europe. "Airlines aren't sufficiently informing passengers about the risks," he says. "There is a link between air travel and thrombosis...
...UPHILL BATTLE . . . BUT WHO WILL FOLLOW? Singer Bono of U2 and other celebs have swarmed Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum, reminding the über-monied about the under monied. Bono's cause: debt relief for poor countries. Illustration for TIME by Paul Slater...
There is one surprise awaiting the industry. This week lame-duck Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater is expected to issue long-anticipated and controversial "competition guidelines," which the big airlines have tried for years to fend off. The document will give detailed definitions of what constitutes predatory behavior and unfair methods of competition. The guidelines will, for the first time since deregulation, allow the DOT wide latitude in looking into the subtle ways competition can be affected. For instance, if a large airline threatens vendors who offer their services to start-up airlines, the new rules would let the DOT move...
Such rulemaking could limit the majors' ability to run off low-price rivals. Says a former DOT official: "I don't think it's a coincidence that Slater is pushing this out the door days after American Airlines just got bigger...