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Before she left for Washington Friday morning, Marie E. Glynn '03 said she hoped to help "shut down the meetings" because, among other things, the IMF and World Bank conduct trade policies that "fail to include indigenous peoples in the international decision-making process...
...Judge Jackson says he will move quickly--probably in the next three months--to impose remedies to rein it in. Some hawks in the Justice Department are expected to demand a "structural" remedy--breaking the company up into smaller and less dangerous pieces. Microsoft is likely to ask for "conduct" remedies--limits on its future behavior...
...remedy to work, it will have to change how Microsoft uses Windows for leverage. The least drastic approach--and the one most likely to be upheld on appeal--would put restrictions on Microsoft's conduct. Judge Jackson could fashion a set of rules or commandments to live by: Thou shalt not sell Windows to some PC makers at lower prices than others; thou shalt not use placement on the Windows desktop as a bargaining chip...
...trouble with a conduct remedy is that almost nobody thinks it would work. It's tough enough to craft rules to stop all the bad things Microsoft has already done. It may be impossible for any court to anticipate how the company might misbehave in the future. "There's a real question about whether a conduct remedy can be sufficiently forward looking," says Barry Jaruzelski, a computer analyst at Booz, Allen & Hamilton, a consulting firm based in McLean...
...addition, while the Fay Prize has in the past been partly academic, but also based on citizenship--"conduct and character...