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...brightest young minds. That has meant fat offers for students like Neel Murarka, a Cal Poly computer-science major who accepted a $70,000 starting salary--plus a signing bonus and stock options--to join a Microsoft team that will develop new software from the ground up. Antitrust troubles or not, Microsoft is still a cool company, and it wooed Murarka and other hotshot prospects with an all-expenses-paid visit to Hollywood, capped off by tickets to the Grammy Awards. "We had a blast," says Murarka. "Everyone who went to the show ended up joining Microsoft...
...Japanese club a negotiating fee. Last year the 27-year-old Ichiro became the first Japanese star to use posting. From the deal, his team, the Blue Wave, earned a crisp $13 million. To some observers such tactics smack of price-fixing, market discrimination and possible violation of antitrust law: if the player does not like the U.S. team negotiating the deal, his only recourse is to stay in Japan for another year. Nomo's American-based agent Don Nomura called it a "slave auction." The union, true to form, failed to file suit. Explained Toru Matsubara, secretary-general...
Federal appellate arguments are often snoozeathons, arcane debates over obscure procedural questions. But last week's hearing on Microsoft's antitrust appeal had all the malevolent energy of a public flogging. "I don't think we'll see anything like it again," says George Washington University law professor William Kovacic. "You just don't see seven members of an appeals court throwing stones at a colleague and basically asking for more stones...
That Judge Jackson crossed some sort of a line is hard to dispute. Buried in a footnote of World War 3.0, one of several new books about the Microsoft antitrust case, is the startling acknowledgment that Jackson granted author Ken Auletta "about 10 hours of taped interviews." That's a lot of time for a reporter to get out of any source, much less one bound by the Code of Conduct for U.S. Judges to avoid commenting on pending cases. Judge Jackson also spoke with other media, including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal...
...Ironically, perhaps, given the feverish nature of civil rights and abortion rights protests surrounding Ashcroft's nomination, there's very little on the foreseeable horizon at Justice involving any of those hot-button issues. Instead, the department faces a docket heavy with antitrust issues, including the ongoing Microsoft case and various pending airline mergers. In the coming months, Ashcroft will also get to weigh in on a few pieces of tobacco legislation...