Word: suits
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...boxing motto that you should lead with your strongest punch, a group of federal prosecutors is trying to use the RICO anti-racketeering statute to shake up the International Boxing Federation as if it were the Gambino crime family. Monday, several New Jersey U.S. attorneys filed a civil suit against the IBF - the only major sanctioning body based in the U.S. - seeking the appointment of a monitor to oversee the restructuring of the organization. The impetus: Earlier this month, four top officials from the IBF were indicted on racketeering charges, including taking payoffs to rank lower-tier boxers and squeezing...
Arriving in his trademark white suit, Wolfe began the lecture by surveying the audience's fashion sense...
...animaster's great coup may have been to impose his will--that the film not be cut--on Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of Miramax. Weinstein is notorious for his itch to trim foreign films to suit the faster American pulse; he reads a sonnet and dreams of a couplet. Says Weinstein: "It's a genius movie. Could it be streamlined? Yeah, and it could be more accessible as a result of cutting. But Miyazaki is like Kurosawa or Sergio Leone--one of the greats of international cinema. The very idea of cutting is anathema to a director of this importance...
...just the Feds who are on Microsoft's case. Nineteen state attorneys general have joined Justice's suit, so the software giant's lobbying strategies are expanding. Microsoft's tactics range from hiring close pals of several A.G.s to sending a key official to speak to a small town's Chamber of Commerce. State officials tell TIME that the company is also helping fund a new Republican attorneys-general group in Washington...
...tailing someone through cyberspace may be far more revealing of personal details. "If you go to sites about mental health or pornography, that information could be subpoenaed in a civil suit or custody battle and used against you," warns Jason Catlett, president of Junkbusters, a privacy advocacy group. That's why the Federal Trade Commission convened a workshop last week to explore the privacy implications of Web profiling. "Not only are privacy policies difficult to locate online," says ftc chairman Robert Pitofsky, "in almost all cases users don't even know this is happening...