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Clinton moved quickly to adapt to the new conditions, keenly mindful of the fact that labor unions and environmental groups are crucial parts of the coalition that Al Gore hopes will take him to the White House. At two appearances the following day, Clinton departed from his prepared text to emphasize that it would be necessary from now on to explain to people more clearly the ways that trade benefited them and to open up the WTO so that its rulings were more legitimate in the eyes of the people they affected. "If the WTO expects to have public support...
...pretty compelling case. And if they can make it with anywhere near the vigor that was demonstrated by the antis last week in Seattle, free trade may yet win the day...
Vincent Gargano was lucky--or so he thought. The 42-year-old Chicago postal worker's prostate cancer was detected early, and he responded well to two five-day rounds of chemotherapy at the University of Chicago. On the third and final round, however, things went terribly wrong. Instead of getting 176 g per day of one drug and 39.4 g of another, as prescribed, he was mistakenly given 176 g of the second drug as well--a massive overdose. Within five days Gargano was deaf. Then his kidneys began to fail. Then his liver shut down. And just...
...day in the Microsoft case. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson last month appointed Posner to try to mediate the case, and the action has now moved from Jackson's courthouse in Washington to Chicago, where Posner is presiding over closed-door conferences intended to push Microsoft and the Justice Department toward settlement. It's a daunting task: the government seems to want a lot more than Microsoft is willing to give up. But if anyone can get an agreement, it may be the brilliant and insanely workaholic Posner...
...hunt for common ground. (One question: Will Posner and Bill Gates be sitting down for a chat?) Count on the parties to be closemouthed throughout the negotiations. "We're not even going to talk about the food we ate," Justice Department lawyer David Boies said after the first day's meeting. If talks fail, it's back to court in late February for the next phase: arguments over Judge Jackson's conclusions of law, a search for remedies and, quite likely, years of appeals...