Date: 03/16/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: no keywords

Journalists and analysts have a bad habit of treating business lawsuits and business negotiations as two separate realms. Often they are not. Often suits are leverage in an ongoing negotiation, one that is very likely to end in agreement, and leave journalists looking like Gilda Radner's old Emily Litella character, who after making up controversy out of whole cloth has to say "oh, never mind."

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