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...minnow in a flash flood. Someone was invading my private space--my family's private space--and there was nothing I or the authorities could do. It was as close to a technological epiphany as I have ever been. And as I watched my personal digital hell unfold, it struck me that our privacy--mine and yours--has already disappeared, not in one Big Brotherly blitzkrieg but in Little Brotherly moments...
...this case, as in so many others, the lesson seems to be that them that has, gets. When the Players Association struck Major League Baseball in 1994, veteran players received $10,000 a month from the association's strike fund, which had been fattened with the proceeds from endorsement deals. But not all fat cats think ahead. The National Football League Players Association went into its 1987 strike with no funds whatsoever, and players were soon crossing picket lines...
Despite such rhetoric, the battle over the UPS pension plan struck many observers as a far stickier issue. UPS pays more than $1 billion a year into 31 Teamster pension funds whose beneficiaries include workers at financially weaker companies. But UPS wants to pull out of the plan and set up a fund with the Teamsters solely for its own employees, which the company says could add 50% to its workers' retirement benefits. Not so fast, say the Teamsters, who want the contributions to continue being spread among more of its members and have refused to authorize a vote...
...even as NASA was giving the go-ahead for Foale to start his training for this unanticipated job, another disaster struck. Someone--according to one report, Tsibliyev--pulled the wrong plug on an onboard computer, sending Mir into a spin and robbing it of power once again. Foale greeted this latest setback with the same low-key we-can-handle-it attitude that Americans have learned to expect from their astronauts. Yet as he and his comrades inched their way through a dark, cold, lifeless Mir for the second time in a month, no one could have blamed Foale...
...Barbara Jones ruled the issue of paternity was irrelevant to the extortion charge, though the judge allowed the defense to argue that the defendant believed the actor was her father and that she had a legal right to his money. However, the $40 million that Jackson had demanded evidently struck jurors as patently avaricious. Jurors also listened to a tape of a phone conversation recorded by Ms. Jackson in January in which she haggled with Cosby's lawyer, threatening "I have offers and I will go through with those offers," apparently from the tabloid newspaper the Globe. That was about...