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 FOR  IMMEDIATE  RELEASE:  January  12,  2001 
 PRESS  STATEMENT  CLARIFYING  COMMISSIONER  MICHAEL  POWELL’S  POSITION  ON  THE  APPROVAL  OF  AOL-  TIME  WARNER  MERGER 
 Contrary  to  some  of  the  comments  at  the  news  conference  Thursday  evening,  I  do  not 
 support  approval  of  the  merger  of  AOL  and  Time  Warner  without  any  conditions.  Although  I 
 have  concerns  that  our  condition  regarding  the  relationship  between  AT&  T  and  Time  Warner 
 Enterprises  (TWE)  is  largely  duplicative  of  existing  consent  decrees  by  the  antitrust  authorities,  I 
 nonetheless  concur  in  approval  of  the  merger  and  also  in  the  condition  regarding  the  relationship 
 between  AT&  T  and  TWE. 
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