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Lots, say lawyers representing approximately 44 million customers in a $10 billion class action against AT&T, which administered the post-Ma Bell leasing program from 1984 to 1996, and Lucent, its consumer-products spin-off, which runs the program today. The suit, set for trial Aug. 5 in Illinois, alleges that after the Bell breakup, AT&T failed to adequately inform customers of their options to lease, purchase or return their old telephones. Customers who took no action continued to be charged for renting their phones, a fee recorded on their bill in vague line items like TRAD...
...sometimes the matter at hand lends itself only to those sorts of questions. Longing is concerned with these essential contradictions of existence, the difference between the witness and the subject, the gulf between two human beings. We spin myths of Mandalay and Shangri-la to transcend, if only in fan-tasy, the conditions that bind us. Even as we come together, find love, dare to dream, we suspect that love, like life itself, will eventually be broken. Kopperud's war-weary, war-loving journalist seeks refuge in the perfect consummation of dreams. He finds mirages...
...that account does not make for a very good legend, so the town goes with the Lexington spin...
...Since the Taliban fell, their forces along with al-Qaeda members have engaged in guerrilla actions aimed at harassing U.S. troops and local warlords aligned with the Kabul government. U.S. bases and patrols regularly come under fire; just last weekend 19 people were killed in the town of Spin Boldak after an ammunition depot used by a pro-Kabul warlord exploded under suspicious circumstances...
...what-a-break break, they do a quick Lindy, their arms airplane wings. Now the band plays games: four times, they blare a five-note sequence and stop; Fred and Ginger fill in each pause with their own pedal percussion. He lifts her into a ballroom spin and, what the heck, she lifts him into one! This brings them out to the front of the gazebo, toward us. They stick their hands out, see that it's still raining and decide to sit it out in some newfound friendly company. Perched cross-legged under the eave, with no hint...