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...appears Microsoft is calling the government's bluff. Last fall, when District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson took the unusual tack of splitting Microsoft's antitrust trial in half, he gave Bill Gates et al. a chance to hammer out a deal with the Justice Department. But the fact that the second half of the trial commenced on Tuesday after four months of mediation hearings indicates that Microsoft doesn't want to play ball. And Jackson, who's expected to deliver a verdict in the case in about six weeks, seemed intent on letting Microsoft know that if it locks horns...
...history and maybe the history of any other country. They smile at us from magazine covers and give us their opinions on television. Their charitable foundations, growing enormously, are taking government's place as the national laboratory for public projects and social innovation. Never mind the Microsoft antitrust suit. The literally murderous personal rage against rich people that was so much a feature of American life at the outset of the 20th century is today almost nowhere to be found...
DIED. RICHARD KLEINDIENST, 76, Nixon Attorney General who stepped down during Watergate and later pleaded guilty to a minor antitrust-scandal charge; in Prescott, Ariz...
DIED. HAROLD GREENE, 76, federal judge who presided over the antitrust suit that broke up telephone colossus AT&T and who, as a young lawyer, drafted key civil rights legislation; in Washington...
...another section of the brief, Lessig took Microsoft and the Justice Department to task for not recognizing that antitrust law is "unsettled" on the question of tying software packages...