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...effectively as the enforcer of the nation's civil rights laws? Given that Ashcroft as Missouri attorney general used his office to file a harassing lawsuit against the National Organization of Women, would he use his new office to promote equality? Given that he has expressed little support for antitrust efforts such as the Microsoft case and that his legislative record has earned near-zero ratings from environmental groups, would he adequately defend consumers and the environment? Given that Ashcroft actively supports prayer in schools and the federal funding of religious organizations, would he maintain an adequate barrier between church...
...fearful and regulators so confused, it's that even now very few people understand the future scope or reach of a company as big and diverse as AOL Time Warner. Time Warner is in the traditional media business; AOL is an Internet company. Because the two didn't overlap, antitrust lawyers saw no need for concern. But the more people looked, the more they thought this was not just a marriage of two companies in different arenas. It was potentially game changing...
...very thought occurred to Microsoft, a company whose domination of the software business made it one of the world's most valuable entities--and the target of a federal antitrust suit. Yet even the Micro-monopolists went running to the FTC to complain. "I never had a problem with the merger," Disney chairman Michael Eisner insisted to TIME this fall. "I have a problem with the fact that there might be a single entity that decides what intellectual property goes into the house...
...Matter of Antitrust JUDGE THOMAS PENFIELD JACKSON...
...school that he lost when his voice changed. But he became a lawyer, then a judge, distinguished by his booming baritone. He had tried high-profile cases (like Washington Mayor Marion Barry's) but was little known until he became Bill Gates' bete noire. The judge in the Microsoft antitrust trial could be gruff ("You are not planning to totally rearrange my room, are you?" he asked our photographer) but was known as open-minded and moderate. His thunderbolt rulings were hardly mild though. He called the Windows maker an "untrustworthy," "disingenuous" monopoly and ordered its breakup. The decision...