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4B THE BATTALION Spring os Staff Application If you can write, edit, design pages, draw, use a camera... Texas A&M's award-winning newspaper is looking for you. 'gain valuable experience • earn extra cash • make friends in a professional newsroom environment Name: Phone number: Cellphone or pager: E-mail: Major: Classification: Credit hours you will take in the spring Expected graduation (semester): How many hours per week would you be available for work at The Battalion? Applicants Please type your responses on a separate piece of paper, and attach a resume and samples of your work (stories you have written for publi cations or classes, pages you have designed, photos taken, drawings made or other creative samples—just show us what you can do). Why do you want to work at The Battalion, and what do you hope to accomplish? What experience do you have that relates to the position for which you are applying? 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Continental Airlines on Wednesday reported earnings losses for the fourth quarter and full year. The Houston-based carrier lost $109 million, or $1.67 per share, a 27 percent improve ment when compared with a shortfall of $149 million for the same period in 2001. Analysts had expected the air line to lose $1.97 per share, according to Thomson First Call. For the full year. Continental’s loss was $451 million, or $7.02 per share, compared with a loss of $95 million for all of 2001. The 2002 figure included a $264 million pretax charge for fleet disposition and impairment. “In spite of these extraordi narily difficult times, we again demonstrate that not all air lines are alike,” Gordon Bethune, Continental chairman and chief executive, said in a prepared statement. “Thanks to a dedicated and focused team of professional employees, we continue to out perform our competitors in almost every measure.” Continental and other carri ers have been offering a wide array of fares aimed at stimu lating business. Some carriers have been trying to entice cor porate fliers with cheaper tick ets. The strategy has gained momentum and could eventu ally be critical to any turn around for the industry, which is expected to report $2.4 bil lion in fourth-quarter losses, before special items, in the coming days. Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines was to report quarterly earnings on Thursday. Continental officials said fourth-quarter passenger rev enue was $1.9 billion, up 16.0 percent from the same period last year. Executives of Continental said fourth-quarter revenue rose 17 percent to $2 billion from $1.7 billion in the year- ago period. For the year, rev enue was $8.4 billion, a 6 per cent decrease from 2001 \s fig ure of $8.9 billion. Continental’s mechanics and related employee groups last year overwhelmingly rati fied a new four-year collective Smaller loss for Continental More holiday travelers helper shrink Continental Airlines fourth quarter loss. The company also beat Wall Stree expections. Net loss, in millions SQ -50 -100 -150 -$149 04 2001 04 2002 Net loss per share SO -1 00 -200 .$2.58 -3.00 -4 00 Analysts expectec -Si SI 04 2001 Q4 2002 SOURCE; The company bargaining agreement betne- the carrier and International Brotherhood Teamsters by a 73 percs majority. Airline officials said agreement includes compe live wages and benefits w maintaining Continenta labor productivity advantage the marketplace. Disney wins in Supreme Court copyright protection ruling By Gina Holland THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Mickey Mouse and The Walt Disney Co. scored a big victory Wednesday as the Supreme Court upheld longer copyright protections for car toon characters, songs, books and other creations worth hun dreds of millions of dollars. Companies like Disney breathed a collective sigh of relief with the 7-2 court ruling giving Congress permission to repeatedly extend copyright protection. The decision was a blow to Internet publishers and others who wanted to make old books available online and use the likenesses of Mickey Mouse and other old creations without paying royalties. Hundreds of thousands of books, movies and songs were close to being released into the public domain when Congress extended the copyright by 20 years in 1998. Justices said the copyright extension, named for the late Rep. Sonny Bono, R-Calif., was neither unconstitutional overreaching by Congress, nor a violation of free-speech rights. “We are not at liberty to second-guess congressional determinations and policy judgments of this order, how ever debatable or arguably unwise they may be,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for the majority. In two lengthy dissents. Justices John Paul Stevens and Stephen Breyer said the court was making a huge mistake. entertainment giants Disney and AOL Time Ware Inc. AOL Time Warner that would N o one cials the n stituency. I homogeneit; positions is r pie, despite A&M has a lation, then female yell 1 female Aggii ity, the deter tantly — en< an A&M yel tate to run fc Unfortun; yell leaders the past. 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Stevens said the court was “failing to protect the public interest in free access to the products of inventive and artis tic genius.” A contrary ruling would have caused huge losses for said that would threaten cop; rights for such movies “Casablanca,” “The Wizard Oz” and “Gone With Wind.” Also at risk of expirath was protection for the wsi; of Mickey Mouse portravA Disney’s earliest films, slid 1928's “Steamboat Willie.' The ruling will affect studios and heirs of autl and composers. It . affect small music publishe: j aci,lon aiu orchestras and church die disappomtin that must pay royalties to pr ^ a< form some pieces. “The winners are folks" hold valuable copyrights. Tl losers are everyone else," Erik S. 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