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Powerful forces are marshaled on both sides of the debate (and in the middle). The union is fighting to limit the number of players whose steroid tests the government can subpoena. The owners--grateful for the home-run explosion that helped put fans back in the seats after the bitter 1994 strike but worried that fans will cry foul over steroid use--have assumed their familiar duck-and-cover stance. And Bush, a former co-owner of the Texas Rangers, is reportedly trying to organize a steroids summit. Tony Serra, Anderson's lawyer, argues Bonds is a "trophy martyr." Says...
...sheer volume of music traded illegally and the challenges of litigation. These challenges were compounded in a powerful December ruling against the recording industry by the U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia: The court asserted that Verizon, an internet service provider, could not be compelled by subpoena to release the names of users suspected of illegally downloading music. Apple and Pepsi will make a winning team because they circumvent these difficulties, instead attacking illicit file-sharing by offering legal music downloads to consumers at low cost, thus dissuading them from breaking...
...never had an answer from Larry Summers, and I expect I never will, unless I subpoena his sorry ass,” Bennett said...
...price controls." But no one really knows how the money is spent. Indeed, the industry has refused to open its books to government auditors and once waged a nine-year legal battle with the General Accounting Office (GAO), Congress's investigative arm, to keep the information secret. Congress could subpoena the information but has refused to do so, in no small part because of the power of the pharmaceutical industry lobby...
...barely told except on the inside pages of newspapers. Mainstream television media scarcely acknowledged the White House’s hard work in preventing the formation of a commission to investigate 9-11, followed by its withholding data from the commission so obstinately that the administration nearly got a subpoena from frustrated investigators. Whether the White House has a legitimate excuse for all this is beside the point; it has been practically spared the need to explain itself at all, since the only thing that could force an explanation out of this administration—the microscope of public attention?...