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WASHINGTON: See Microsoft try to spin itself out of a tight corner! Watch the software giant's No. 1 foe, Netscape supremo Jim Barksdale, detail with relish what he'd like to see the government do with Redmond! These and other gaudy attractions were on display at the Capitol's most popular courthouse Tuesday, as the antitrust trial of the future entered its second heart-stopping day. After the Justice Department pulled a courtroom coup with a withering display of what appeared to be perjurious statements from Bill Gates, Microsoft's lawyers had to backpedal hard in their own opening...
Thus far, however, the Crimson has looked like anything but defending champions. In the first week of the season Harvard traveled to New York to take on Ivy League foe Columbia, and suffered its first shutout defeat since 1994, losing at the hands of the Lions by the score...
...Saturday morning, Manhattan (2-14, 0-0 MAC) proved to be not the foe that Pittsburgh...
...really wrong with exposing Hyde's past, aside from hurting him and leaving even innocent bystanders--like the press!--at risk of a sexual inquisition. Holding up adultery to the light of the 24-hour news cycle has bleached the scarlet A. When used to bludgeon a political foe, adultery is not a human tragedy but a political one. "Will it hurt his poll numbers?" becomes the question, not how broken and scarred a spouse and children may be. With the press reveling in scandal (although we insist that we are not), even good people make bad excuses, searching...
Enough with the Ken Starr bashing! Starr was given a difficult and thankless job: he had to uncover the misdeeds of an elusive foe. Considering the power of the President, it is doubtful that a less determined person would have been able to force Slick Willie to confess. Obviously the process has been disruptive and costly, but what would Americans have had Starr do? If we don't want to know when politicians break the law or commit immoral acts, then we'd better get rid of the special-prosecutor law. Otherwise, let's not shoot the messenger just because...