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...answer was a clear one, for the shift in strategy was actually a twofer for Microsoft. At the same time as its no-breakup announcement, the department said it would similarly not pursue the suit's "tying" claim, that Microsoft had illegally leveraged its monopoly by bundling its Internet browser in Windows. The two moves could be read as confirmation that the Bush Justice Department won't be as aggressive on antitrust matters as its Democratic predecessors...
Justice, for its part, insists it is fully committed to pursuing Microsoft, which, after all, even a Republican-dominated federal appeals court has now branded a monopolist. The department gave up on the breakup and the tying claim, it said in a statement, "to streamline the case with the goal of securing an effective remedy as quickly as possible." In fact, both of the now abandoned issues would have required the production of piles of evidence, followed by lengthy hearings. Adding credibility to Justice's explanation are the 18 state attorneys general, parties to the suit, who followed the Federal...
...Love Can't Get Any Better and She Mends Me, hold the promise of a long shelf life. The first is an up-tempo, feel-good song with strong Afro-Cuban percussion rhythms. The latter is a haunting ballad about a man who has lost himself in a painful breakup--a perfect vehicle to show off Anthony's technical and emotional range...
...fake survive” was used to incite a reaction among his fans, but in truth his statement was autobiographical. Vicious was unable to reconcile the sell-out aspect of superstardom with his belief in the tenets of punk rock, and died of a heroin overdose after the breakup of the band...
Just before the Cambrian, however, something big happened. The deep oceans were made oxygen rich and sulfide poor, Knoll believes, when an unusual spate of undersea landslides (triggered by the breakup of a primordial supercontinent) buried megatons of oxygen-consuming debris. Virtually simultaneously, microscopic algae spread far and wide. For the first time since the planet's formation 4 billion years earlier, the oceans were capable of supporting a population of small-, medium- and large-bodied animals...