Word: courtroom
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...segment ended before Gates could help make scented candles, but Microsoft's point had been made. Gates' TV appearance was part of a two-pronged effort: a Microsoft p.r. campaign to counter those famously snarly Gates videotapes, and a courtroom defense, begun in earnest last week, to fight the antitrust charges against the company. At the center of both is Microsoft's peculiar vision of the computer world and its place in that realm. Microsoft sincerely sees itself as a force for good--bringing PC users technical innovation and consumer value--and far from being a powerful monopoly, feels threatened...
Attorney David Goodrich held an almost religious belief in playing by the rules. Certainly his deference to protocol and respect for others were plainly evident on the day in June 1992 when, in the middle of the courtroom, he toppled flat onto his back. Coughing up blood, the prosecutor from San Bernardino County, 60 miles east of Los Angeles, apologized profusely to the court for the delay. "David stood out" for his fairness and selflessness, says his former boss John Kochis. "You felt good when you were around David...
Shortly after his courtroom fall, Goodrich was told he had stomach cancer. It was then that he found himself launched upon a three-year ordeal of battling not just the disease that would ultimately kill him but also Aetna U.S. Health Care, the nation's largest health insurer. As required, he first approached doctors in his plan. Conceding that they didn't have the expertise to treat his rare form of cancer, leiomyosarcoma, they referred him to specialists outside the plan. He bounced back and forth between clinics and Aetna bureaucrats who challenged his use of out-of-plan doctors...
CHERYL MILLS Not much riding on her first big courtroom appearance--just the President--and she aces...
Cheryl Mills is definitely one tough sister. Though she had little courtroom experience, last week she stood in the well of the Senate, showing tremendous poise as she defended the President and took the House impeachment managers by storm. A little-known White House deputy counsel, Mills hurled their hypocrisy back in their faces. The managers, she intoned, had argued that "the entire house of civil rights might well fall" if Clinton escaped conviction. You could almost hear her muttering, "Spare me." "We've had imperfect leaders in the past," said Mills, referring to Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln...