Word: suited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...song Under Pressure, written by David Bowie and Queen, for his No. 1 hit $ Ice Ice Baby. When Bowie and Queen threatened a lawsuit, the rapper eventually added them to the composer credits. Two years ago, the rap group De La Soul was slapped with a $1.7 million suit by the '60s group the Turtles for using an uncredited bite of their 1969 song You Showed Me. M.C. Hammer avoided such problems by sharing credit with Rick James, who wrote Super Freak, before sampling the song for his platinum single, U Can't Touch This...
Julie started dating a fellow cast member in a Carleton play. They had never slept together, she charges in a civil suit, until he came to her dorm room one night, uninvited, and raped her. Weeks later, she says, he ripped her dress at a play rehearsal and grabbed her exposed breast. Still she told no one. "If I had been raped by a stranger, I would have told someone. But to be raped by a friend -- I began to wonder, Whom do you trust?" She struggled to hold her life and education together, but finally could manage no longer...
...other students, Kristene and Karen, claim to have suffered similar experiences at the hands of another student; all four of the Carleton women have filed suit against the college. They claim the school knew these men had a history of sexual abuse and did nothing to prevent their attacking again. Even after the men were found guilty of sexual harassment, they were allowed to remain on campus, and the victims were barred from warning their dorm mates under the college's privacy policy. The local police chief says that in the past six years, no Carleton official has brought...
...million fee for setting up the purchase of an American movie company by a Japanese high-tech firm -- just the kind of deal Democrats used to excoriate. "Probably in Japan," came the answer. A couple of wags took estimates on the cost of Clifford's flawless Glen plaid suit. High estimate...
Several college attorneys say the consent agreement may take some steam out of a private suit filed by a Wesleyan graduate on behalf of about 100,000 students. The suit is slowly making progress in New York where a federal judge is expected to rule on class certification within the next two months...