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These days, that person is looking very much like Bill Gates. A year ago, his company stood on the brink of a court-ordered breakup. Then an appeals court reversed the breakup order while keeping intact much of the lower court's anti-Microsoft rulings. Two weeks ago, the Justice Department, answering to a new President and distracted by Sept. 11, hastily inked an antitrust agreement in which the monopolist basically agreed to play nice. Now, with only minor changes to that deal, nine of the 19 original litigants, including New York, Ohio and Illinois, have found they...
...With Kabul in opposition hands and Kandahar, the regime's spiritual center, under siege by opposition Pashtun, the Taliban was on the brink of total collapse. But inside the Pentagon, joy was tempered by the grim knowledge of the threats to American forces on the ground. The pace and scale of the Taliban's retreat last week left U.S. special-ops troops scattered throughout a ravaged land that lacks a central governing authority. Dozens of warlords staked claims to their own pieces of turf, and in several cities, ethnic tensions held the potential for fresh violence. And even...
...combination of a productive offense, a solid defense and tremendous poise and character has led the Crimson to the brink of history, and it will face its toughest test of character on Saturday against Yale...
...undermanned Harvard team took league champion Yale to the brink in New Haven, losing only on a disputed touchdown with just seconds left to play...
Other critics are less merciful. “It looks like what is happening is some sort of silent genocide,” Noam Chomsky wrote in a recent op-ed. Before the war, eight million Afganis were on the brink of starvation. The only thing keeping these people alive was the food rations provided by international NGOs and the United Nations World Food Program. But when the bombing began, these organizations were forced to abandon the eight million Afghanis who depended on them for their daily bread. Suppose the food drop operation was flawless and all 37,000 daily...