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...premiere presentation, the Market Theater features two one act plays. The first, Amazons, is an apocalyptic monologue about a man striving to uncover the mystery surrounding his female next-door neighbors, directed by Robert Auletta. The second is entitled The Imperialists at the Club Cave Canem; a play of surrealist humor that explores modern relationships, directed by Charles...
...premiere presentation, the Market Theater features two one act plays. The first, Amazons, is an apocalyptic monologue about a man striving to uncover the mystery surrounding his female next-door neighbors, directed by Robert Auletta. The second is entitled The Imperialists at the Club Cave Canem; a play of surrealist humor that explores modern relationships, directed by Charles...
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...
Making matters worse, Jackson's comments were not particularly judicious. According to Auletta's book, the judge compared Microsoft to the Newton Street Crew, a Washington gang over whose murder and drug-trafficking cases he had presided. "I am now under no illusions that miscreants will realize that other parts of society view them that way," Jackson told Auletta. He also criticized Bill Gates for having a "Napoleonic" view of himself and Microsoft...
Judge Jackson did not talk to Auletta until after the last day of the trial. But those conversations occurred before the judge had issued his findings of fact, and before he issued his order breaking up Microsoft. Judge Jackson embargoed his comments until he issued a judgment. He may have felt that meant he was not talking publicly during the trial. But Microsoft argued the embargo only made things worse: if his conversations had been known, he might have been removed from the case back then...