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Elster's lawyer Kenneth F. D'Arcy '58 asserted his client's innocence. "[Elster] didn't do anything against the law," he said. "You've got two consenting adults. Whatever happens, his defense is consent...
...headmaster at my Saudi school, who was an avid supporter of my [American] education, had to meet with my father for three hours before he gave his consent," el-Gaili recalls...
...Saturday confirmed that Gates was willing to modify his licensing agreements with computer manufacturers to let them decide which products and services they could feature on their own machines. But Klein wasn't interested in settling for another minor pact reminiscent of his predecessor Anne Bingaman's infamous 1994 consent decree, now widely derided as a sellout that only postponed the day of reckoning. The deal, struck in 1994 and ratified in '95, granted Microsoft the right to sell "integrated" products--i.e., software like Windows that combines more functions than a Swiss Army knife. But the decree also prohibits...
...problems inherent in the wording of the consent decree became painfully apparent when Klein finally went after Gates last fall. For Klein, the intent of Microsoft's harsh licensing deals--its strong-arming of Compaq, for instance--was clearly to drive up the market share of Microsoft's Explorer at the expense of front runner Navigator's. Thus, he felt, those deals constituted tying. No, they don't, Gates shot back; Explorer is as much an integrated part of the operating system as type fonts or file-system managers. Months later, the battle is still being waged in appeals court...
While most of us accept the fact that the law must make generalizations, such as the arbitrary designation of 16 or 18 as the age of consent, our society frequently permits exceptions to these rules. A marriage in which the bride is 13 or 14 is not unusual, and there is no talk of rape. This is appropriate. Judgments in affairs of the heart should be made on a case-by-case basis. RICHARD FEINBERG Boston...