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Until the final breakdown Saturday afternoon, it looked for a couple of days last week as if Bill Gates just might have found a way to slip out of this one relatively unscathed. Early Thursday morning, with only hours left before the press conference at which Attorney General Janet Reno and her antitrust chief Joel Klein were to announce one of the largest and most important antitrust cases in American history, Gates demonstrated the cold-blooded brinkmanship for which he is famous: with no time left on the clock, he suddenly made nice. O.K., he told Klein: Let's talk...
Thanks to successful protection, the Interior Department is proposing to "delist or downlist" some two dozen species on the Endangered and Threatened Species List, including, clockwise, the bald eagle, gray wolf, brown pelican and Aleutian Canada goose. So will the list get shorter? Don't bet on it. Our breakdown of the list...
...illness with a raft of possible symptoms, from irritability to hypersexuality. Moore theorizes that "psychosocial stressors" in Mary's life--the most crucial being the news of her father's cancer--tipped a disorder that had been mild and all but unnoticed into depression followed by a nervous breakdown. "I think she was very interested in this boy, and she had often extended relationships with students after school," Moore says. "But by [June 1996], she was overly elated, highly revved up and nearly delusional." Moore notes, "The father had always been the man in her life--and even the husband...
...analyzing the breakdown of theland-for-peace formula and the chances for atwo-state solution, Ashrawi directed sharpcriticism at United State intervention in theMid-East, accusing the nation of an overtpro-Israel bias...
...database in the sky with everyone?s prints in it,? said a spokeswoman for the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse in San Diego. Banks, on the other hand, see dollar signs: They lose around $600 million in fraudulent checks every year. But most customers, like Taussig, simply see a breakdown in trust. Whether his case will give banks a big thumb in the eye is now in the hands of a Berkeley area judge...