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...have an eager audience in Silicon Valley's cabal of anti-Gates activists, who have spent the past year aiding and abetting a DOJ investigation that was going nowhere before they stepped in and started guiding it last summer. A source close to the project told TIME how, under guarantees of anonymity lest Gates learn of their betrayal, Microsoft's rivals (and some of its partners) led Justice to specific documents and officials at one firm after another. "We knew whom to direct Justice to at IBM, Compaq and Gateway, because we'd all shared beers at computer conferences together...
...invite a reporter to a gathering of worldwide Masonic grand masters at the New York Grand Lodge. And the event is grandly international: 75 delegations in Masonic aprons of every color and design, Lebanese hobnobbing with Cote d'Ivoirans and multitudinous Brazilians, engaged for the first time (although the cabal-obsessed may dispute this) in establishing an international Masonic coordination. Still Feingold can't forgo bragging about the domestic organization. "Fourteen Presidents have been Masons," he says; "nine signers of the Declaration of Independence...
...jail, but to squeeze her into telling all she knows. When she finally does talk, her lawyers say, she won't be hiding anything. "She is not going to serve jail time to save any President," Ginsburg says. "She is not part of any cabal. If my defense of Monica helps the President, fine. If it hurts the President, fine. All I care about is Monica Lewinsky...
...Supreme Court colleagues it was time to allow more executions. "In case anyone hadn't noticed, we had a successful execution last night," Robert Giuffra exhorted. "We need to get our numbers up after only 11 in 1988 and five since July." Giuffra was one of an influential "cabal" of conservative law clerks who used their proximity to the Justices to work against abortion rights and affirmative action and to try to cut back on the court's review of death-row appeals...
Lazarus' description of the role of a cabal of conservative law clerks in swaying the court ideologically should sound alarms. In 1988-89, the period of Lazarus' clerkship, liberal Justices who had for decades won the major ideological battles suddenly began losing. One case that year about on-the-job racial harassment so dramatically set back civil rights law that Congress passed a new statute that reversed the ruling. Not infrequently, Lazarus contends, it was the clerks--highly credentialed recent law-school graduates hired by individual Justices to help research cases and draft opinions--who helped manipulate the results...