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Should there be a time limit for protecting whistle-blowers' jobs? The Bush Administration seems to think so. Case in point: Ernie Fitzgerald, the Air Force cost analyst who in 1969 told Congress about $2 billion in cost overruns on the C-5 cargo plane, prompting President Nixon to tell officials to "get rid of that son of a bitch." A court order saved Fitzgerald's job, but he says it's under threat again. Fitzgerald, 79, tells TIME his role has eroded under President Bush. His reports on how much aircraft should cost "have been ignored" by superiors...
...receive it, than under the more exacting Intelligence Identities Protection Act. But national-security lawyer Kate Martin says, "Civil libertarians have always objected to [the Espionage Act] being used to prosecute leaks to the press." Though Ellsberg's indictment was dismissed, the statute was used to convict naval analyst Samuel Morison, in 1985 for giving a satellite photo to a defense magazine, and Pentagon official Lawrence Franklin last week for passing secrets to a pro-Israel group. --By Viveca Novak and Mike Allen
...With this backdrop, the story practically writes itself: given their combined smarts, distribution and chutzpah, Sun and Google will produce software products that will finally break Microsoft?s grip on the desktop. They?ve even got a lot of the same corporate DNA. Mark Stahlman, an analyst with Caris & Company, calls Sun and Google ?the same company? because so much of Google's top brass is ex-Sun. Many of those same people, about 15 years ago, hatched a plan to use technology to radically transform the way people manage information. Much of what spun out of their efforts-Java...
...Every epic needs a dramatic confrontation as its climax. Can Schmidt finally capsize his old rival? Steve Allen, an analyst with Sierra Tech Research, put Schmidt in Silicon Valley perspective: ?This is a story of redemption,? Allen says. ?Everyone loves a story of redemption. Here's a chance to come back the third time and see if he can do it. That's part of what's driving him. Google isn't going off to do that just because he has a personal vendetta. But that does play into the mix.?-With reporting by Amanda Bower/San Francisco
...says Henry Berghoef, partner at Harris Associates, which holds $1.3 billion of Time Warner stock. Others see Icahn's criticism of Time Warner as playing Monday-morning quarterback. "It's hard to pick a date and say this is the way things should have gone," says James Goss, media analyst at Barrington Research. "Things were evolving." Then, paying off debt was critical, and something had to go. Parsons chose the troubled music division. Still, says Larry Haverty, money manager at Gabelli Asset Management, the value of the division today is $2 billion higher than the $2.6 billion it was sold...