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Aside from what happens in the government's case, last week's decision delivered a separate blow to Microsoft. The ruling that Microsoft is a monopoly could open the floodgates to civil suits by companies, and even consumers, who have been harmed by Microsoft's anticompetitive activities. Proving that a company is a monopoly is an onerous legal task, and private litigants may now be able to bootstrap their cases onto last week's findings...
Thank you--that is, if you're a tobacco company or an investor in one. Two years after absorbing what was supposed to be a death blow, the industry seems once again as healthy as a vegan marathoner. And last week it got an unexpected pick-me-up from the Bush Justice Department. The DOJ said it may be willing to settle a Clinton-era suit seeking to recoup more than $20 billion in health-care costs. The feds essentially admitted that their case is weak, a view not shared by outraged antismoking advocates, who see the shift...
...Surfing through Channel 2 is like taking a ride on Japan's wild side. On any given day you can read messages about users' schemes to assault their bosses, murder their teachers or blow up a neighborhood kindergarten. Most are by harmless attention seekers. "There are so many of those, I can't keep count," Nishimura says. Police are starting to take notice, though. Last month, after someone left a message identifying a schoolgirl and threatening to rape her, anonymous callers tipped off police, who immediately surrounded the girl's school in Ibaraki prefecture. Fortunately, this one turned...
...kawaii," says salesgirl Chie Sakakibara, 22. Hiroaki Morita, head of Teens' Network Ship, a consulting firm for companies targeting teens, believes the switch in tastes may also be a response to Japan's lingering economic malaise. The girls still wanna have fun, but they just don't want to blow a lot of cash doing...
...major blow to the National Rifle Association, the Court dismissed without comment the organization?s challenge to the FBI?s system of keeping records on gun buyers. The NRA appealed a lower court?s ruling that the Justice Department could continue keeping information gathered from instant background checks on file for six months, rather than discarding it immediately, as the NRA requested. Because the Justices chose not to rule on this case, the federal appeals court decision will stand...