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Shoplifter interrupted? It is a “simple case of theft.” Or it is a “case about a woman who has been wronged and wronged terribly.” Thus began the shoplifting trial of the century, as opening arguments and prosecution witness testimony were heard in a Beverly Hills courtroom Monday in the case …

ABC’s political blog, The Note, notes a strange concurrence of opinion between Dick Morris and James Carville regarding the upcoming election: when Dick Morris agrees with James Carville, well, there just might be something to their shared thesis. Even though Dick’s verbiage is steeped in the Fox News polling data …

And I just made a big deal about the news that AOL Time Warner planned to build a $483 million movie studio in China, viewing it as the “end of the cultural revolution.” Just kidding: A spokeswoman for Warner Bros. on Monday said a report from China’s official Xinhua news …

Digital Songstream maven Brad Hill takes a close look at the upgraded digital music service: On Monday, October 28, Listen.com released v2.0 of Rhapsody, the interactive listening service that now features unlimited 99-cent track burns to blank CD. Rhapsody members must subscribe to the All Access subscription plan to burn …

Cable news seems to be made for crisis coverage: Wall-to-wall coverage of the Washington, D.C., sniper attacks pushed cable news viewing in October to its highest levels since last fall. In October, Fox News Channel notched a 1.5 average in primetime, down 6 percent from October 2001, when post-Sept. 11 …

David Shaw of the LA Times wants to know: If you think about the 10 or 15 things you absolutely have to do today, and the various decisions you have to make about them, how helpful would you say your daily newspaper is likely to be in any of those …

Robert Moore says yes, the DMCA says no: Moore’s wares enable the copying of discs even if they are scrambled to prevent duplication, as are most movies sold on DVD. This sort of product, officials at the Motion Picture Assn. of America say, blatantly violates a 1998 federal law against …

Coolworld announces headliners for the 11th annual Planet New Year 2003 to be held on New Year’s Eve at the Cow Palace and Grounds in San Francisco: A sell out crowd is expected to enjoy over 100 of the world’s greatest DJs and live acts who will perform on seven …

Scientists will touch each other over the Internet, literally: In a technological first, they will use pencil-like devices called phantoms to recreate the sense of touch across the Atlantic, organizers of the experiment said. The phantoms send small impulses at very high frequencies down the Internet using newly developed fiber …

Long New Yorker essay on Ellsberg and his new book on the Pentagon Papers: To anyone over a certain age (forty-five?), Daniel Ellsberg needs no introduction, but it would be quite a challenge to explain Ellsberg to someone who had never heard of him. There was this brilliant young man …