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...Lott called on fellow lawmakers to investigate whether the Administration had pushed the company too far. House majority leader Dick Armey (dubbed "MS Dick Armey" for his pro-Redmond sympathies) said he'd "rather break up the Justice Department" than Microsoft. Republicans put Al Gore on notice that they intend to make an issue of the case this fall, but Democrats seemed just as caught up as the G.O.P. was in Gatesmania. New Jersey Senator Robert Torricelli lamented that "only the U.S. would consider breaking up a company that has done this much economically to advance our national interest...
...There has not been a financial report [in the last few years]," Huidekoper said. "I believe we intend to do that...
...Fontana and Barry Levinson's Homicide was humanities, a character-driven mix of philosophy, religion and Dostoyevsky. Unsurprisingly, then, it was the first department to lose its budget, getting axed at nbc last spring. Now writer-creator Fontana says he and Levinson intend The Beat (UPN, debuts March 21, 9 p.m. E.T.) to delve even deeper into the inner lives of cops. "I'm less interested in the cases than in the effects of them on these guys," he says...
...appointment with destiny. This view is shared by the people around him, who are generally hard-edged campaign professionals. It is not an epic ideological battle; even the true lefties talk about Bush's "extremism" not as a threat to the social fabric but as a liability they intend to exploit. They probe him clinically, looking for weaknesses, soft spots. This isn't personal; it's just the way politics works...
...from Wall Street to Silicon Valley are eagerly pumping funds into educational start-ups. "We originally set out to raise $100 million," says financier Jeffrey Leeds, founder of one such fund. "But the demand [to invest] was so great that we raised our target to $250 million, and we intend to cap it at $300 million...