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...Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Armitage. They had their last skull session on May 24, when Powell provided a tasty take-out lunch from Chicken-Out, a step up from the greasy grocery-chain fare he had served at their previous meeting. With each public outing on the lecture circuit, he fills in more blanks in his agenda of political positions. And while his book, to be published in September and for which he reportedly received a $6 million advance, was originally planned to end with his retirement as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, he has added a new last...
...children. "Most of us believe there'stoo much indiscriminate violence, too much indiscriminate sex,too much callous degradation of women and sometimes of other people in various parts of our media today," the President told a family-values conference in Nashville. Clinton's solution: the "V-chip," an electronic circuit that would allow parents to block violent or otherwise objectionable material with remote controls. A Senate-passed measure would require the technology in new TV sets and force the cable and broadcast television industries to encode a rating in violent or sexually explicit programs that could be read by such...
...court of appeals reversed a lower court's rejection of Microsoft's antitrust settlement with the Justice Department. District Judge Stanley Sporkin perceived Microsoft as ruthless and rejected the settlement as insufficiently punitive; the circuit court disqualified him from further presiding over the case and recommended that the next judge on the case approve the agreement...
...that reviewed the trial transcript commented that this oversight alone could have meant the difference between conviction and acquittal. Macias' trial lawyer contends that the lack of money was not a factor, noting he devoted eight months to the case, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit disagreed. "The state paid defense counsel $11.84 an hour," the court noted. "Unfortunately, the justice system got only what it paid...
Microsoft Corp. won a major legal victory today when a federal appeals court reinstated a favorable 1994 Justice Department settlement of an antitrust case against the firm. The settlement had been rejected in February by federal judge Stanley Sporkin. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit also rebuked Sporkin for exceeding his authority. Sporkin's controversial ruling broadly condemned Microsoft's tactics as "monopolistic" and drew Justice Department fire as "an invitation to anarchy in the enforcement of antitrust law." Now, Microsoft is back where it was a year ago: "They dodged the bullet," saysTIME...