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...singer Arlo Guthrie and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo, author of the so-called torture memos for President George W. Bush. The settlement counts The Joy Luck Club author Amy Tan and noir crime novelist Elmore Leonard among its supporters. The deal has many other supporters as well, from disability rights groups to Dr. Seuss Enterprises and the National Grange...
Fueled by writers, the debate has plenty of rhetorical flourishes. One incensed objector called Google a "Dickensian street pickpocket." The Open Book Alliance, a coalition that includes goliath rival Microsoft as well as the National Writers Union, likened Google to industrialist John D. Rockefeller and compared the settlement to a monopoly cartel controlling the future of digital publishing. "They have worked very hard to create the impression that this is like a freight train, and if you want to stand in front of it, you'll get run over," Gary Reback, an antitrust attorney who penned the legal brief...
Remember when speed dating used to be a novelty? Well, these days, everyone seems to be doing it: Hillel, RUS, and now, CSA, which hosted aphrodASIA, its own speed-dating event, last night. Is speed dating is getting a little blasé? Maybe. But could we really ignore a name like aphrodASIA? FlyBy decided to send a semi-undercover correspondent to check...
...said going to college means the end of trick-or-treating and the arrival of slutty costumes and drunken parties? Well that person definitely didn't live in Mather House...
...Christophe Mitterrand, son of former President François Mitterrand - were convicted of illegally supplying arms to Angolan rebels in the 1990s. In responding to his guilty verdict and one-year prison sentence, Pasqua said that many former and current members of government knew about the arms sales, as well as several other illegal schemes. The comments suggested that Pasqua expected political help in the case - or he was prepared to take a lot of people down with him. (Read: "The Arms Trade Booms Amid Global Economic Woes...