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Could Bill Gates still have the last laugh? Microsoft's boss reportedly boasted to Intel employees back in 1995 that "this antitrust thing will blow over." Those words have echoed hollowly on each of the Judgment Days since, as Microsoft steadily descended into Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's three circles of hell--branded a monopoly, found in violation of antitrust law and, finally, last week ordered to perform self-dismemberment. But Gates has at least one, and more likely two, lives left in this game--one if the U.S. Supreme Court takes the case immediately, as the Justice Department...
...current commerce secretary's last name (he's the son of legendary Chicago mayor/ boss/ kingmaker Richard Daley) implies all that it should about Daley. TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty calls him "a total nuts-and-bolts political mind, with a very clear sense of what works and what doesn't." Toting none of Coelho's ethical baggage, Daley's also fit for surrogate duties in front of the cameras, and, one assumes, a nicer guy to have around the Nashville digs. As Tumulty says, "the stylistic differences couldn't be greater." We read...
...media organization in the country, and its objective coverage of stories such as the Chechnya war has infuriated the Kremlin. Putin may say that this was an independent decision by the prosecutor's office, but nobody in Russia makes a decision of such magnitude unless it comes from the boss...
...knew the most important aspect of an Internet job offer is using it as leverage to get a raise, so I e-mailed my boss that afternoon. "I was offered a job at an Internet company whose name I forget but was something like knifeinthehead.com It's an exciting position with lots of new challenges, a six-figure salary and oodles of equity. I look forward to hearing what AOL Time Warner is prepared to offer me. Your humble but much coveted employee, Joel Stein...
...typist in Minneapolis, day-care expenses for her two preschoolers, at $160 a week, ate most of her $207 take-home pay. Halverson felt she had no choice but to go on welfare. "The hardest thing I ever had to do," she says, "was to tell my boss I couldn't afford to work anymore...