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Although it still claims its innocence on antitrust charges, the software giant Microsoft on May 10 presented Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson with an alternative remedy to counter the government's proposed breakup. Unsurprisingly, the company's solution placed unacceptably weak restrictions on Microsoft's future conduct and left open a number of loopholes that are likely to be closed by the government's plan. A remedy as narrow as Microsoft's will not do enough to dissuade the company from continuing its abuse of monopoly power--a stronger resolution to the case must be employed...
...What these people fail to realize is that there are bad guys out there," says the concerned senior intelligence official. But the trackers counter that if they can do it with binoculars and brainpower, so can any enemy. So why so much secrecy around not-so-secret satellites? Good question, says McDowell, who argues that it only makes him and other satellite watchers look even harder at the heavens...
...anyone's guess how the suit will finally end; the government is required to respond to Microsoft's counteroffer by May 17, and Judge Jackson has indicated that he would like to wash his hands of the penalty phase of the trial by the end of May. Microsoft will counter that timetable, according to reports, claiming they need more time to prepare an argument against any plan that involves a breakup...
...Within the Cambridge community, Harvard has long been viewed as some sort of amoral juggernaut, gobbling up real estate, intoxicated by its own power and thereby above the standards of simple human decency," Damon said. "Their resistance to a living wage does nothing to counter this characterization...
This liberty interest, implicating personal privacy as it does, is designed to protect the worth and dignity of each human, to create a zone into which the government may not enter without good and proper cause. It runs counter to our notion of decency and fair play that any person should be taken aside and searched without probable cause of some wrongdoing, but random drug testing is a search based upon presupposed guilt without any suspicion, much less probable cause...