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...benefit for the opposite reason--because the ruling frees Microsoft, and hence the rest of the technology industry, to innovate and improve products without government meddling. The company has several new initiatives teed up, including Passport, a kind of Web-shopping manager, and Hailstorm, a subscription-based e-mail-alert Web service. One of Microsoft's main offenses in the antitrust case, the company points out, was giving away the Internet Explorer with Windows. "There weren't a lot of complaints from customers that they were getting a browser for free," says Jonathan Zuck, executive director of the pro-Microsoft...
...French daily Libération dubbed it the Irish ambush, while Le Monde called it the Irish alert. Both were right. In the curious way that democracy has of upsetting the best-laid plans of the proud and powerful, a strange coalition of Greens, anti-abortion activists, Irish nationalists and detractors of Prime Minister Bertie Ahern voted 54-46% against ratifying the European Union's Nice Treaty, and in so doing, managed to throw the ungainly process of reforming and expanding the E.U. into chaos. As Ahern, embarrassed and chastened, scrambled last week to recover, delegates at the E.U. summit...
...speak as a university professor myself. My own students are invariably alert and thoughtful, my lectures reliably fascinating, and my seminars as lively as the Algonquin Round Table. I have, however, heard of this situation arising...
...possibly bolting the Republican Party has died down. But the new detente will face immediate tests. McCain opposes Bush on a patient's bill of rights, gun control and government spending, issues likely to come up soon. Which means the White House chefs had better be on full alert...
...past decade, all 50 states have passed so-called Megan's laws, requiring sex offenders to alert the community to their presence. Twenty-eight states run Internet sites listing such criminals. In the mid-1990s, judges in Texas, Louisiana, Florida and Oregon began ordering individual sex offenders to post signs outside their homes. But Banales--who also mandated bumper stickers and even temporary placards for traveling in someone else's car--drew national attention by applying his ruling to so many at one time. His move sparked a debate on the rights of these offenders and the merits of public...