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...Oracle's cloak-and-dagger tactics against its despised enemy Microsoft and its allies--not to mention Ellison's brazen defense of them--left the targets fuming. "They've set new standards for hypocrisy and disingenuousness, even for Oracle," says Microsoft spokesman Mark Murray. The Association for Competitive Technology, one of the organizations Oracle snooped, alleged that spies tried to buy its garbage. Other groups are saying that laptops with information relating to Microsoft were swiped from their offices...
...ways of scamming people out of their money to be real employment," says Morrison. Between 1969 and 1991, Robinson was convicted at least four times of embezzlement. He then allegedly used his financial gains to snare young women, promising them jobs and cash. He shifted his activities behind the cloak of the Internet, police say, when he believed suspicion might fall on him for the disappearances...
...between an ancient establishment rooted in honor and unlimited liability and a modern litigious society, seeking to avoid individual responsibility at all costs? Is there equity in hounding the Names to suicide or their last penny when the companies that initially profited from asbestos have already escaped behind the cloak of limited liability? At the beginning, the true, dangerous nature of asbestos was unknown to all--companies, workers and underwriters--and I ask why the whole burden of the horrible error is now placed solely on the last. JONATHAN HEMP Cape Town...
...structures and winding, convoluted pathways. Unfamiliar in unexpected ways, it reveals the obsessive and overwrought patterns of human activity in all their inscrutable complexity. Too bad that, in the last weightless moments before touchdown, the city metamorphoses into something more pedestrian--disappearing, finally, into the invisibility with which we cloak the everyday. Up close, we see nothing...
...Where most mid-20th century statesmen feel obliged to cloak their extraordinary qualities in a mantle of folksiness, he unabashedly regards himself as a historic figure and comports himself as a man of greatness...