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MySpace has long had certain protective measures in place, such as a prohibition against posting last names, street addresses and phone numbers. But the suit filed last week against Solis, MySpace and its parent company, News Corp., which bought the site last summer for $580 million in cash, notes that even though new members have to submit their name, gender and date of birth, "none of this has to be true." Indeed, while MySpace maintains that it prohibits anyone under 14 from joining the site and anyone 18 and older from viewing profiles of those 17 and under, Solis...
...INOUI As a child, Sophie Larger adored the beanbag her mother made for her. At 33, the French designer now makes her own playful versions from stretch Lycra? "swimming-suit material"?and inflatable rubber. While the padded Doum is irresistible to kids, she recommends parents pair it with a Louis XV commode. inouidesign.com
...business affairs, Morgan was a man accustomed to handling things personally. One of his biggest objections to the way Roosevelt had sprung the Northern Securities suit was that the President had not quietly tipped him in advance. Large sums of borrowed money were at stake, and the abrupt attack by the Justice Department had rattled the markets. In Morgan style, he went personally to Washington to meet with Roosevelt and Attorney General Philander Knox...
Roosevelt directed Knox to continue to pursue his suit. All the same, Roosevelt remained open to more cooperative dealings with Morgan. For all his tough talk, Roosevelt really was willing to cut deals. But he wanted the business world on notice that the days of freewheeling combination were over. And Morgan had reason to play ball with Roosevelt. Northern Securities was only one of the many trusts he had assembled. General Electric, Western Union, International Harvester, Aetna Insurance--he controlled them all. Just a year earlier, he had put together what was then the world's largest corporation, U.S. Steel...
...suit against Northern Securities eventually landed at the Supreme Court, and Roosevelt won a narrow but crucial victory that opened the way for more aggressive use of the Sherman Antitrust Act in other cases. He also established a Department of Commerce and Labor, which included a Bureau of Corporations to monitor the budding monopolies. Roosevelt endlessly reassured Big Business that he intended merely to keep an eye on its conduct. But he let it be known that he meant business too. Only "the corporation that shrinks from the light" would have anything to fear from government, he once said. Then...