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...Asgharzadeh made clear at the time in his frequent harangues to Western reporters, the students were outraged by the entry of the deposed Shah of Iran into the U.S. for cancer treatment. Mindful of the CIA-engineered coup that restored the Shah to his throne in 1953, the students saw conspiracies everywhere, hence their painstaking effort to reconstruct embassy documents retrieved from the shredder. The students had another aim: they hoped anti-Americanism would end the factional feuds undermining the revolution...
...sweep of Judge Jackson's ruling became clear, the anti-Microsoft camp had trouble containing its glee. James Barksdale, the folksy former Netscape CEO who testified at the trial that Microsoft tried to suffocate his company, hailed the findings of fact as "an 11 on a 10-point scale." Michael Morris, general counsel for Sun Microsystems, crowed that "Microsoft is in deep, deep trouble, and they know it." Klein, flanked by Attorney General Janet Reno at a celebratory press conference, declared that it "shows once again that in America, no person and no company is above...
...Freedom to Innovate crowd argues that by bringing lawsuits like this one, the government is meddling dangerously with private industry and, consequently, the health of the entire U.S. economy. The most extreme remedies, they say, are a clear intrusion--a judge's breaking up a company, or forcing it to share trade secrets with its competitors. But the milder ones--such as stopping a corporation from engaging in certain anticompetitive actions--may even be worse. "You'd have a judge in effect as CEO, micromanaging every decision," warns Jeff Eisenach, president of the conservative Progress & Freedom Foundation...
...track on AT&T cable systems. It also invested $600 million in Nextel Communications and bought a 30% stake in a British cable company. Even if Jackson gets a chance to issue a remedial order, he will be aiming at a fast-moving target. It's not at all clear that he'll be able...
Although 708 girls played high school football in 1998, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations, it's not clear if there have ever been four on a varsity team. And it wasn't as if the four Lincoln girls got together to make a statement. Mora and Chaparro went into it together, curious to see if they could hack it. But Cruz and Macias decided independently to do the unexpected. "It's my senior year," Cruz says. "I wanted to try as many things as I could, because it's my last chance...