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...first time before Congress. Appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee to address Microsoft's allegedly anticompetitive practices, Gates will try to bury the impression that he disdains the "other" Washington and its institutions. To help mask his well-known contempt, Gates, who has complained that committee chairman ORRIN HATCH has targeted him, has been rehearsing his testimony in front of a "murder board" of advisers. Gates will also subject himself to a day of glad handing, pleading the company's case in one-on-one meetings with Senators, including majority leader TRENT LOTT...
MOSCOW: On Mir, failure is something of a given. But you know it?s getting serious when Mission Control won?t let you hear what?s going on up there. After a planned space walk was canceled Tuesday because the cosmonauts were unable to open the hatch, officials on the ground turned off the audio system that lets reporters listen in on the radio traffic. ?You?re not supposed to listen to that,? snapped Mission Control Chief Vladimir Solovyov. ?You will get the news from...
...string of accidents that turned Mir into a global joke began just over a year ago, and Solovyov is bound to be wary of a repeat performance. Especially when the news is pretty embarrassing: Not even Nikolai Budarin, the strongest cosmonaut of the current crop, could open that darn hatch -- and he broke three wrenches trying. ?I am somewhat distressed that we have failed to open the hatch,? Solovyov conceded. That?s an understatement. The space walk now has to wait until a new stock of wrenches is sent up in the next cargo ship -- and Mission Control...
...David. But when Bill Gates went head-to-head with Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the little guy -- aided by a gang of sympatico senators -- was finally able to get a slingshot in. Kicking off the hearings in a basketball-court-sized room, Sen. Orrin Hatch called for a fair fight. "Neither this hearing, nor any aspect of this committee's inquiry, are intended to serve as an arena for attacking any single company," he said...
...committee's chairman, Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), and ranking minority member, former prosecutor Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), who kicked off the questioning. Hatch pressed Gates for details on browser licensing relationships with Internet providers; Leahy was determined to learn more about fees Microsoft might charge for online transactions. Gates ducked, weaved, but generally came out sounding fairly reasonable...