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WASHINGTON: So you say Mr. Gates did bad things to you? America Online and Apple are the latest victims in the Justice Department's parade of top tech firms allegedly abused by Microsoft. AOL's contention: That the software giant sweet-talked it into an exclusive (and illegal) deal, where AOL would get a cute launch button on the Windows desktop -- if it sold its service-provider soul exclusively to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Netscape would be provided only if users asked for it ?- a deal that Redmond enforced by playing Big Brother. "Microsoft has carefully monitored references to Navigator...
...last-minute reprieve late Tuesday: They postponed a showing of Bill Gates?s prerecorded testimony until further notice. Microsoft?s lawyers complained that the videotape constituted an extra witness, violating an agreement to call no more than 12. And that was about the most successful argument the software giant could manage on another very tough day in antitrust court. The worst blow came when the feds displayed a mail from Dan Rosen -? who represented Microsoft at that crucial June 1995 meeting with Netscape. His priority, Rosen wrote, was to "establish Microsoft ownership of the Internet client platform for Windows...
More than any other Cirque show, O incorporates these acts into its expansive design. A quartet of carousel horses canters through the air. Angels, hunchbacks, giant toucans materialize as cameo apparitions. Anything may navigate the pool: a bathtub, a giant inverted umbrella, a wayward iceberg, a shark fin that turns out to be the top of a crescent moon. At the end the hunchback plays a grand piano as the princess reclines on it--art, love and beauty in one heartbreaking image--and then, slowly, it dissolves into the water. Here and throughout, O achieves a goal of the highest...
...ideas to improve that city, she heard of a program housed in a Richmond, Va., warehouse called Crayons to Computers and decided "we could take that warehouse and make it fun." Carter named her free store Crayons to Computers too. "This is not brain surgery," she observes, "just a giant recycling project...
...World Series. If it's poetry one wants, one may write a celebratory ode to a baseball field in New York City or San Diego, and the lights that blaze like a giant's necklace, and the stirrings of memory as the country stays young as long as possible into late October. For myself, I dream a scoreboard with Yankee numbers higher than other numbers, and a bunch of guys in pinstripes piling on their pitcher in the ninth, and a nutty voice on radio telling me the only news I wish to hear...