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...throw a full bale of tea overboard themselves (this time attached to a rope) and will be rewarded with a complimentary cup of tea afterward. The museum also has multi-media displays, exhibits, documents, and costumed guides to answer your questions. Open daily 9-5. 338-1773. Congress Street Bridge. T-stop: South Station...
...Hall of Toys! A two-story climbing structure! The "Science Playground!" It's all here, along with a myriad of multi-media and cultural displays. Only $1 on Friday nights. 300 Congress Street. 426-6500. Open Tuesday to Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday...
...Cambridge stepped up its effort to gain ashare of federal crime-fighting dollars. Itmounted an extensive lobbying campaign, targetinglawmakers who held sway in Congress...
...some states that have sued the company, including New York, Microsoft has retained operatives with ties to the attorneys general to argue against the litigation. Former Republican Party chairman Haley Barbour is arguing Microsoft's position with Republican Governors. The company's other lobbyists include four former members of Congress--Republicans Rod Chandler and Vin Weber and Democrats Tom Downey and Vic Fazio--and former aides to Senate majority leader Trent Lott and House majority leader Dick Armey...
...What can Congress do for Microsoft? A Justice Department official says it could pass legislation that would effectively override any court-imposed solution in the antitrust case. And there are precedents. In 1981, AT&T tried, without success, to avoid a breakup by pushing a bill to restructure the company on more favorable terms. Much later, regional Bell companies, chafing under restrictions of the AT&T decree, were able to get it rendered moot by the 1996 Telecommunications Act. A blunter approach would be to forbid the Justice Department to spend any funds enforcing a court decree. Congress "could make...