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...sources close to the government reported that Justice is still not amused. Throughout last week, the feds continued to favor the most draconian of penalties for Microsoft: a breakup of the software giant. The AOL-Time Warner merger may have altered the landscape today, the reasoning goes, but the government's antitrust case is built around events that happened in 1994 and 1995. Microsoft's business practices back then--stifling competition and bullying clients when it had market-share dominance--are the issue, not the company's position in today's media world...
...government's help. In visitation cases, they often argue that they have had a parental relationship and should remain part of the child's life. Penny Kazmierazak went to court last year seeking custody of Zoey, a five-year-old girl born to her partner before the couple's breakup. Kazmierazak and Pam Query had been together five years when Query underwent artificial insemination. Despite Kazmierazak's role in Zoey's birth (she paid for the insemination) and years of parenting, a Florida court turned her down because she wasn't a birth parent and had not legally adopted...
...grown weary of at least one thing. "The opening chords of Entertainment Tonight drive me positively nuts," says Orecklin, who nevertheless perseveres (except on those rare occasions when Jeopardy's siren song proves too strong to ignore). For this week's People page, Orecklin reports on the breakup of Ted Turner and Jane Fonda. Although Turner is vice chairman of Time Warner, [parent of TIME's publisher] and a certified big shot, he'll not be spared Orecklin's sharp needle. "Just to be sure, though, I'd like to take this opportunity to say, 'Good luck...
Facing an increasingly inhospitable Broadway environment, the best new straight plays have sought homes off-Broadway. The premise of this recent arrival is mundane: surprised by the marital breakup of their best friends, a couple are forced to examine their own comfortable marriage. But in pondering issues of intimacy, passion and the pleasures and dolors of conjugal routine, Margulies writes about relationships with such intelligence and spiky humor that his comedy-drama--acted and directed with perfect pitch--becomes something quite wonderful...
...surface, it looks like a big win for the telecom giants at the expense of the little guy: In what could be the final blow against the 1984 AT&T breakup, on Wednesday the FCC cleared the way for Bell Atlantic to become the first Baby Bell to offer long distance services. The move was decried by many of the consumer advocates who futilely fought against the Telecommunication Act of 1996, which paved the way for Baby Bells to provide long distance so long as they open their markets to competition. Earlier this year, when AT&T sought...