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...Barkers are happy about the acknowledgment of government wrongdoing, but they feel a long way from whole. "We were at the point where we felt like there was just no justice," says Dorathy. "The greatest loss of all is the breakup of our family." The Barker children were forced off the land on which they had lived all their life--land on which they had hoped to set up various businesses, including a family dairy, day-care center and beauty parlor...
...fines or money damages. If the Justice Department prevails, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson would have to rewrite the rules of engagement so that Microsoft could no longer unfairly exploit its dominant market position. And that could even mean what every Microsoft hater truly lusts for: a breakup of the company...
...Explorer browser that it has built into its Windows operating system. Judge Jackson could then spell out what Microsoft can and can't do in the future. He could personally monitor Microsoft's behavior, much as Judge Harold Greene oversaw AT&T for more than a decade after the breakup of the phone company...
When the Justice Department served Bill Gates with an antitrust complaint that could, in theory, lead to Microsoft's breakup, he didn't bother reading it. At a key point in his war against archrival Sun Microsystems, Gates fired off an e-mail about Microsoft's plans to use Apple Computer to "undermine Sun," but now he can't remember sending the message and has no idea what he could have meant by it. And although Microsoft had two high-level negotiations in June 1995 with Netscape--the company that seemed to pose the greatest threat to Microsoft's dominance...
...struggles were worth it; Seal has grown as a writer and a performer. His vocals, always strong, are now more nuanced and expressive. On the low-key breakup song, No Easy Way, he is aching and vulnerable; on the expansive When a Man Is Wrong, he is charismatic and commanding. Seal can sound mythic and virile and optimistic and lost and loving all in the same song. Yet he never oversings his compositions; he feels the spirit but is never ruled...