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...favor independence," says D.P.P. secretary-general Chiou I-jen, "but not right now. Taiwan is already a de facto independent state." With this revision, the party is gaining strength and should do well in the legislative elections next December. It even has a shot at winning the presidency in 2000, something that could put Beijing in a fighting mood...
Sourani, a 1991 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Laureate, divided his remarks between attacks on Israel--which he said enforces a "de facto apartheid" in the occupied territories of Gaza and the West Bank--and the Palestinian Authority. He accused the Authority of responding to Western calls for crackdowns on militant groups by suspending due process and resorting to torture of suspected criminals...
...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...
...latest in a long string of Ray defense lawyers: one William Pepper, who is either a credulous buffoon or a con artist. To promote himself and his book on the alleged conspiracy, Pepper has exploited the King family's understandable desire to learn the full truth. Pepper's de facto accomplice is Phillip Jones, an old friend of Dexter King's, the martyred leader's son who heads the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta. Jones' firm, Intellectual Properties Management, is responsible for marketing the Rev. King's writings and speeches. With Jones' help, King's relatives have...
...could Gates become the world's de facto banker? "I don't have any interest in bringing Microsoft into that arena," says Dusche. "Frankly, it's a really tough business." But his boss is a really tough businessman. As banking evolves into a competitive, complex business conducted over the Internet, Microsoft software--just as in the PC era--could become ever more valuable even as the products it enables grow ever less so. "I can go online and find hundreds of checking accounts," says Condon. "Microsoft wants to sell more servers and software, not become a financial institution." But Gates...