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...case with no clear winner, there was one undeniable loser--Judge Jackson. The court blasted him for "egregious" violations of the judicial-conduct canons, when he rattled on to the press while the case was pending, offering his opinion that Bill Gates had a "Napoleonic concept of himself and his company" and comparing Microsoft to a drug gang...
Microsoft wants no more than a "conduct" remedy--restrictions on how it behaves in the future. But at least some states will probably push for a "structural" remedy--like splitting Microsoft. "The court gave some cautionary language about breakup, but I don't think they fully took it off the table," Iowa attorney general Tom Miller, who has been a leader among the AGs, told TIME. "One of the ways you get to a structural remedy is by process of elimination. You see that other remedies won't work...
...judged legally insane in Texas, it's not enough to be depressed. You can be very blue but know you're not supposed to kill someone. Texas law says you're insane if you have a mental disease or defect--and you didn't know your conduct was wrong at the time. There's no scientific test. The jury has the almost impossible task of jumping into the accused's mind at the time of the offense...
Liberia's President Charles Taylor is not a happy man. Rebels based in neighboring Guinea regularly conduct raids across the border, while the United Nations recently announced an embargo on diamond exports from Liberia. Of course, the country has no diamonds of its own, but that's part of the problem: Taylor and his cronies stand accused of sponsoring the murderous, limb-chopping Revolutionary United Front rebels in neighboring Sierra Leone, a country with bountiful diamond fields. Taylor, who escaped from an American prison before returning to Liberia and fighting a bloody "liberation" war, denies he backs...
...Human rights law has never been at the center of the conduct of foreign affairs, and Kissinger and others believe it could have a destabilizing effect. For example, there are efforts currently underway in Belgian courts to indict Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon over the 1982 massacre of Palestinian refugees at the Sabra and Shatila camps in Beirut - for which a 1983 Israeli government inquiry found Sharon "indirectly responsible." The Israelis may dismiss this as a propaganda exercise, but if the rules of immunity and cross-border prosecution begin to change, such endeavors could complicate efforts to mediate conflicts, critics...