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...great shakes as a wrestler, but he could roil the crowds by playing the bad guy against such scripted good guys as Hulk Hogan. Recalls Hogan: "Jesse's best move was to cheat and run...He'd take the tape off his wrist and choke you, he'd gouge you in the eyes, and then if you cleared your eyes or got the tape off your throat, he'd run for his life." But Ventura was funny and articulate outside the ring, skills that led, once he hung up his tights, to movie roles and jobs as a TBS wrestling...
...birth of the "Copyright Wars": According to Lessig, the war began during the fall of 1995, when members of the "content industry" (read: media giants) began to grasp the implications of digital technology on copyright enforcement. (An analog tape was difficult to copy and disseminate. An MP3 file, on the other hand, just required the click of a mouse). "What before was both impossible and illegal is now just illegal," Lessig explains. In September of that year, movie studios and record labels met with the Commerce Department to map out a new legal strategy. The wildly popular and ill-fated...
...done himself no favors, Watson said. "Mahoney has handled this really badly. Embarrassing. Textbook how not to do it." Other politicians have met continued success after admitting their personal or professional flaws. Why doesn't Mahoney question the fact that his phone conversation was recorded, or that the tape released by ABC is incomplete? "If there's some legal, complicated knots and scenarios here, I'd advise him to say it's not the right time to talk," Watson said. But if not, "why not come clean...
Garcia has been dealing with a far-reaching corruption scandal that began Oct. 5, with the release of a secretly taped audio of two men talking about how they could grease the wheels for a Norwegian company to get oil and gas concessions in country. Garcia and his Cabinet chief, Jorge del Castillo, hastily called a press conference as soon as the audio was played on a local news show, trying to put distance between themselves and the men on the tape, who are also members of ruling APRA party...
...help. On the tape, one of the voices is identified as Romulo Leon, who, as Garcia's agriculture minister in the 1980s, was accused of taking kickbacks. Nothing ever came of the investigation, but his apparent reappearance in shady dealings dredged up memories that Garcia and APRA believed had been buried. On the tape, Leon, who admits it is his voice but denies wrongdoing, talks about top party leaders, boasting about meetings and inside deals...