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...part of the program. The move will cost the town some $40 million in revenue and considerable pop-culture cachet. And so last week, John de Leon, 38, a Cuban American who is president of the Miami chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, filed suit to void the local law that prevents shows by artists from Castro's Cuba. In the past, De Leon might have received instant death threats from militant anti-Castro groups, but they are caught in an Elian quagmire of their own making and are proving to have more bark than bite. "I think...
...Sunday, April 9, comes zero hour. The brave volunteers will be sealed in the war room--no civilians allowed, only a telecom link to their commanders--to carry out a perilous mission and stare into the void. They've rehearsed the horrifying scenario over and over. But this will be no drill. If all goes wrong...the survivors will envy the dead...
...wine," says SEC chairman Arthur Levitt. "You wouldn't pop the cork on that bottle before it was ready. But some companies are doing this--recognizing revenues before a sale is complete, before the product is delivered, or at a time when the customer still has options to terminate, void or delay the sale...
...recording industry, Napster provided another chilling glimpse into the dark void of a postcopyright economy. After spending months hunting down pirates, working on SDMI (the Secure Digital Music Initiative) and investing millions in litigation, battling companies like MP3.com and Scour, the industry may have thought it had begun to stuff the digital genie back into its shrink-wrap. Despite the initial hype about MP3s, the format turned out to be downloadable music for geeks only. The rest of us couldn't be bothered spending hours wandering through dead-end links searching for a particular Phish bootleg. With Napster, however...
...good times. But it was just a reminder. There's nothing pervasive out there like the speculative loans tied to real estate and emerging markets that brought bank stocks to their knees in the past. Not that today's economy is without speculation. The Internet certainly fills that void. But banks aren't funding the speculation. The stock market...