Word: suit
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Surely over the next few years Harvard students and others will follow suit, adopting en masse software like Skype, a sort of VoIP-meets-instant-message program allowing free high quality real-time voice chat with other Skype users. The real goal, however, is not to improve our blocking group dinner coordination systems. Rather, it’s to ensure that some time down the road, VoIP will take telecommunications in the third world and, despite the odds, render it from a convoluted and corruption-riddled endeavor into a foregone conclusion the whole world enjoys without a second thought...
PEOPLE: O'Reilly's sex suit; Jon Stewart's Crossfire debut...
...problem with asserting moral authority nightly on live TV is that inevitably someone will one day challenge it. For Fox News anchor BILL O'REILLY, that time is now. His former producer ANDREA MACKRIS filed a sexual-harassment suit against him last week with some very awkward talking points: Mackris alleges O'Reilly bombarded her with unwanted sex chat in person and by phone, including a fantasy of massaging her with a loofah while sharing a shower in the Caribbean. On his show, O'Reilly, who is suing Mackris for extortion, called her suit "the single most evil thing...
...Americana: Brought back the one-piece swimsuit on Baywatch and the birthday suit in a sex tape with Tommy...
...South African musician Solomon Linda. But Linda, a cleaner at a Johannesburg record company when he wrote the song, received virtually nothing for his work and died in 1962 with $25 in his bank account. His family is suing Disney for $1.5 million. Disney says it will fight the suit, but it's already paying off. Though not named in the suit, U.S. music-publishing house TRO/Folkways last month admitted it had not been paying royalties on a version of the song, and promises to give some $3,000 a year to the Linda family and to finance a memorial...