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...that Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson would think twice about crushing shareholders in deciding how to de-monopolize Microsoft. "He'll be more interested in restoring the marketplace to where it would have been" absent Microsoft's abusive behavior, says Jennifer Gray, an antitrust lawyer with Brown Raysman. In that view, any wealth that happens to be destroyed by a breakup or other remedy could be seen as just deserts for shareholders who should never have benefited from monopoly profits in the first place...
...nature of his character (mostly the fault of the script) hinders his ability to turn Maximus into a truly mythic hero. The great Hollywood epics all had a sense of sweeping emotional grandeur (when the rebels all yell "Spartacus!" it's a cheesy yet uplifting scene) which is noticeably absent from Scott's film, which is more of a relentless, almost mechanical, exercise in blood sports. The end result is a movie that's exciting yet empty, visually gorgeous yet emotionally barren. As big-budget action films go, Gladiator more than delivers the goods, but a healthy dose of heart...
...lead single off _Standing_) opened the concert, while "Gas Panic" also made an appearance. But the crowd was obviously there to hear the band's older songs, as shown by the whoops of recognition in response to "Supersonic" and the cheeky New-Seekers-alluding "Shaker Maker." Conspicuously absent were songs from _Be Here Now_, but no one seemed to mind, at least not when they could sing along to Liam's rousing rendition of "Roll With...
...cooperation. Working through the U.N., the world's nations have banned giant drift nets and drafted a fishing treaty to bring responsibility to the high seas. But it won't go into force until 30 nations ratify it; 25 have done so. Among top fishing nations, Japan is noticeably absent. The country relies heavily on seafood and yet is exceptionally disrespectful toward the ocean. It has disregarded international quotas on catches of southern bluefin tuna and used "scientific research" as a bogus justification for hunting whales in the International Whaling Commission's Antarctic Sanctuary. A 1997 study revealed that...
...this sounds easy enough on paper, but in the real world it is not so simple. Beneficiaries of the current system--be they U.S. corporate-welfare recipients, redundant German coal miners or cutthroat Asian logging interests--will resist. Which is why progress is unlikely absent a broader agenda of change, including real democracy: assuring the human rights of environmental activists and neutralizing the power of Big Money through campaign-finance reform...