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...owns Hyatt) over inheritance issues. The squabble began when two of the younger heirs, Liesel Pritzker and her brother Matthew, sued their father and 10 older cousins, claiming they had misappropriated about $1 billion from each of their trust funds. A nasty court battle ensued, in which an intricate web of offshore trusts was unveiled that grabbed the attention of the IRS. When the smoke cleared, the clan had agreed to divvy up the family's $15 billion fortune to family members by 2011. The payout plan would involve selling or floating many of the family's businesses...
...Someone had to hold the line against the mewing hordes. That's why the folks at the Web humor site Urlesque have declared Sept. 9 "A Day Without Cats Online." More than 40 blogs and websites have agreed to say no más to the mousers, banning cats from their pages for at least 24 hours...
...were tired of feline humor and cooked up the online holiday as a way to provide relief. They've gotten some big-name websites on board, including NPR, Best Week Ever and PetSugar. But Reeves says Urlesque's ban has also awoken a vocal feline-defense movement. The Web's leading distributor of cat humor, ICanHazCheeseburger, even made a video to rally defenders to the feline cause...
...Knill said that he started this Web site in 2006 just for fun as a movie collector. "I love movies," said Dr. Knill, who grew up in a Swiss village on the Rhine River near Zurich. "My place is filled with books and movies. We have stacked them on the floors...
Duckworth said Tenenbaum has flouted the letter and the spirit of the ruling against him by allowing links to file-sharing web-sites to be posted on his web-site, repeatedly arguing for the legality of file-sharing in interviews, and by keeping illegal files on his computer after being convicted...