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...risky legal strategy to some. Nevertheless, the DOJ and 20 states are pursuing it with full vigor. Their previous court filings have already accused Gates of personally directing the effort to leverage Windows' monopoly to Microsoft's advantage in the browser market; now the states' lead attorney, Steve Houck, is blasting the billionaire for not being on his own firm's witness list. "Given Mr. Gates's key role in these events," said Houck, "the only explanation for his failure to appear is his lack of intestinal fortitude." Calling Bill Gates gutless -- now there's something guaranteed to get Microsoft...
...better be pretty strong evidence -- summary judgments are rare in matters as complex as antitrust cases, and Microsoft risks losing face if its attempts fall too far short of plausibility. Steve Houck, an antitrust enforcer for New York State, which is leading the charge, said it is "highly unlikely" that Microsoft's request will be granted. But Microsoft head counsel William Neukom contends that the appeals court decision recognizing Windows 95 as being integrated with Internet Explorer would prove fatal to a successful prosecution of his company...
...Faulkner's choice to take the bad with the good. She applied -- and was accepted -- last year. Then the Citadel, learning she was female, reneged. Faulkner sued for discrimination -- the school is state funded -- and last month, Federal District Judge C. Weston Houck ruled in her favor, saying she could attend the school as a full-fledged cadet beginning with the start of the new school year -- this Monday...
...together and working on the same team." In fact, there may be some truth to claims by other traditionalists that once Faulkner is in, rather than playing by the Citadel's rules, she (or her legal team) hopes to change the place. After their initial victory, her lawyers asked Houck to excuse her from the traditional knob crew cut, on the shaky grounds that it would stigmatize her as a woman. More sensibly, given recent threats on Faulkner's life and fear of cadet harassment, attorney Sara Mandelbaum promised, "We'll be monitoring Shannon's progress closely...
Last Wednesday, Houck ruled again, this time in favor of the haircut. Previously, he had accepted the Citadel's demand that Faulkner be housed by herself in a renovated area of the school's infirmary. Faulkner's enrollment, however, seemed inevitable, and as she prepared gamely for her desired ordeal, Citadel graduates like Buck Limehouse (class of '60), now chairman of the South Carolina department of transportation commission, tried to put their disappointment in a historical context: "It's sort of like the Southern cause," he said. "Even if you know you're going to lose...