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Long-time Microsoft rivals saw the rise of the Internet and the browser as the perfect opportunity to defeat Gates's empire of Windows...
Netanyahu Hobbled by Resignation Israel?s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have cheated defeat on his budget vote, but the resignation of his foreign minister could be the death knell for his government...
JERUSALEM: Benjamin Netanyahu cheated defeat again Monday and passed his budget despite the resignation on Sunday of his Foreign Minister David Levy. But the loss of Levy has hobbled Netanyahu, says TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Lisa Beyer, and the Prime Minister will likely face new elections within six months...
...than 100 other nations have ratified it since 1982, the Law of the Sea Treaty languishes before the Foreign Relations Committee, along with almost 80 other international pacts covering everything from a nuclear-test ban to a boundary agreement between the U.S. and Cuba. And, as shown by the defeat of major free-trade legislation last month, Congress seems less inclined than in the past to join international movements. The nationalist passions reflected in the candidacies of Ross Perot and Pat Buchanan have sunk deep into Republican politics: just before Congress adjourned this year, it refused to pay $1 billion...
WASHINGTON: The legal tennis continues. The Justice Department fired back at Bill Gates Wednesday with a familiar request filed in D.C.'s U.S. District Court: Hold Microsoft in contempt, this time for evading the unbundling order. "Microsoft's naked attempt to defeat the purpose of the court order and to further its litigation strategy is an affront to the court's authority," the government asserted in papers. Trustbuster Joel Klein went on: "Microsoft has gone from tying its products to tying the hands of its vendors," he said. "The more Microsoft continues this practice, the more consumers are harmed...