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...hate thought ("I hate Jews/ blacks/ gay people/ Catholics/ old people/ Walloons/ Bosnian Muslims/ Italians/ Latinos/ Other") flashed for an instant in the perpetrator's brain, like summer lightning, but no deed was done, then would the mere thought - tagging along as, so to speak, cheerleader in the vivid, if Orwellian, phrase "hate crime" - be worthy, in itself, of 10 to 15 years in jail? If not, then why, under hate crimes law, is this matter of the perpetrator's state of mind taken into consideration...
...change, as the Internet giant finds itself under the microscopes of the ounce-of-prevention trustbusters over its purchase of Time Warner. And the feds are giving Steve Case some hints as to how a tech behemoth should act. Lesson 1, according to Wednesday's Wall Street Journal: Instant Messaging, the real-time, buddy-listed way to chat online that's more popular with teenagers than 'N Sync and is widely expected to be next frontier of all things e-. AOL owns 90 percent of the 150-million-strong IM market and, more important, has continually thwarted attempts by Microsoft...
...went to the College Jubilee on the 8th instant. A noble and well-thought of anniversary. The pathos of the occasion was extreme and not much noted by the speakers. Cambridge at any time is full of ghosts. But on that day, the anointed eye saw the crowd of spirits that mingled with the procession in the vacant spaces, year by year, as the classes proceeded, and then the far longer train of ghosts that followed the Company, of the men that wore before us the College honors and the laurels of the state--the long winding train reaching back...
...last game in this grueling eight- game stretch was a crucial home match against Princeton in late October. A win would have propelled Harvard from the depths of the Ivy League into instant contention with No. 8 Yale for the conference championship...
...likely to run into free-speech problems - but then again, why should rich people have the loudest voice, whether the voice belongs to the elected official himself, as in Corzine's case, or to his contributors? In any case, now that Corzine, who made his $400 million in an instant when Goldman Sachs went public, has apparently solved the problem of why rich men don't win, brace yourself: There are an awful lot of dot-com millionaires out there looking for a new challenge...