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...LANI GUINIER, 5 ROBERT BORK Both write provocative articles that elevate their reputations. Both get nominated to high positions. Then, sadly, their enemies read the articles...
Richardson resigned his post as U.S. Attorney General in 1973 after President Richard M. Nixon ordered him to fire Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox '34. After Richardson's deputy also refused Nixon's order and resigned, Nixon convinced Solicitor General Robert Bork to fire Cox, in a series of events later labelled the Saturday Night Massacre...
Richardson's resignation spurred his deputy, who also refused to fire Cox, to resign as well. Nixon was able to convince Solicitor General Robert Bork to fire the special prosecutor, but the series of event, which have since been labeled the "Saturday Night Massacre," increased the pressure on Nixon to resign...
...knows how much it cost Microsoft nemesis Netscape to convince the infamously conservative author of the free-market classic The Antitrust Paradox that Bill Gates is in fact guilty of violating a set of laws that Bork hitherto regarded as contradictory at best and destructive at worst. But as hostilities flare between the software titan and its many foes (the Justice Department, the House and Senate judiciary committees and a flock of state attorneys general are all scrutinizing Microsoft's monopoly power), both sides are hiring whomever it takes to win over public opinion, and price appears...
...result? Some of the Beltway's most bold-faced names have waded, often blindly, into the fray. Bork's surprising initiation into the regulatory camp took place at a press conference introducing the Project to Promote Competition Innovation in the Digital Age, a group of Microsoft rivals that will pursue its lofty goal by urging the authorities to sue Bill Gates' pants off. ProComp, as it's called, will have help navigating D.C.'s treacherous lobbying shoals from ex-Senator and Visa pitchman Bob Dole as well as from such heavy hitters as ex-Federal Trade Commissioner Christine Varney...