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...Jackson: his decision to abruptly end the proceedings without allowing Microsoft to call witnesses (including Gates) to discuss the remedies. This kept the case from dragging on until the end of the year, but it also denied the company an opportunity to mount an important defense. "The refusal to entertain any further debate was a mistake," says George Washington University law professor William Kovacic. "What Jackson was basically saying is that nothing was going to change his mind...
...ALSo part of what gives voters pause. When the subject gets serious and Bush doesn't, you have to wonder whether a man so in love with certainty, so impatient with complexity, is ready for the grave duties of the presidency. That may be why he was willing to entertain doubt last week when he agreed for the first time in his record-setting 131 executions to grant a 30-day reprieve so that a more sophisticated DNA test of semen and hair samples could be performed in the rape and murder case of Ricky Nolen McGinn...
...believed to have descended directly from H. ergaster, the discovery of closely related bones in Eurasia suggests that our own species may have evolved outside the ancestral continent or arisen in several places simultaneously. Says Swisher: "If you have the ancestral form outside Africa, then you have to entertain those thoughts...
This past weekend, I was lucky enough to create my own "Battle of the Springfests 2000." Among other colleges in the area, both Harvard and the trade school down the river (better known as MIT) brought bands to entertain their students, although our own Springfest was the only one that "just happened" to fall on pre-frosh weekend...
...Harvard-who knows how to entertain best? I preferred Harvard's free, all-day fest to MIT's one-shot deal, although I obviously can't be completely impartial. Perhaps the bottom line was this: whether you're a Harvard or an MIT student, there were two solid concerts in Cambridge over the weekend...