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STATUS The only country to develop nuclear weapons and then give them up of its own volition. De Klerk dismantled the arsenal in 1991 and joined...
...issue, of course, is the line between what Bill Gates can and cannot legally do with Windows, his de facto operating-system monopoly. Klein's team has spent the past year amassing what the DOJ clearly considers persuasive evidence that the software giant's behavior--from restrictive licensing arrangements with its so-called PC allies to me-only marketing deals with Internet service providers and websites--violates the venerable Sherman Act, the bedrock of U.S. antitrust law. Sherman, in essence, says it's O.K. to achieve a monopoly, but not to use one to wedge your way into other lines...
Dorm Crew workers also get the chance to meet one another in a more relaxed setting where t-shirts and shorts are de rigeur...
After Dahmer was murdered, his widow was pleased at the speedy jailing of five of the killers. But she would not rest until Bowers was convicted. After repeated mistrials, the government seemed to lose its will. But by 1990, the landscape had shifted. Byron de la Beckwith was rearrested and eventually convicted for the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers in Jackson. "We figured if the Evers case could go forward," Ellie says, "we had a good chance of getting ours back on track...
...first glance, Norretranders--heralded as Denmark's leading science writer--appears to be simply the latest author dazzled by the brilliant approach of a new millenium. In this finde-de-siecle, so-called Information Age, where URLs serve as book titles, books like The Roaring 2000s are appearing on shelves to herd the masses in the right direction. You can already see them approaching, regiments of technology gurus marching onward with laptops under their arms and PalmPilots in hand, ready to take every bit of information you have and compile it into terabyte-sized chunks...