Word: jacksons
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Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson tried his best to make it a speedy trial--the antithesis of IBM's 13-year torture. Determining whether Microsoft has violated antitrust laws should take a month or two, maybe three. But as AOL has amply demonstrated, even six weeks can be an eternity in the warp speed of Internet time...
...continue? Microsoft, not surprisingly, says no. Chief counsel William Neukom declared that the Netscape deal "yanks the rug out from the government's case" by proving that the Internet is more competitive than ever. As soon as the feds finish their case, Neukom's team will ask Judge Jackson--one more time--for summary dismissal. Said David Boies, the Department of Justice's lead attorney: "[That's] the sixth time that Microsoft has pronounced the government's case dead...
...dampened the government's confidence, it does make one aspect of the trial more problematic: the remedy. The DOJ could argue, as Georgetown law professor William Kovacic puts it, that "the lawsuit was the catalyst for this deal--it gave the companies some breathing room." In that case, Jackson may decide that that's all the relief they really need. After all, the trial is slow enough. Punishment shouldn't take forever...
...sole duty should be to "the truth" and "facts, facts, facts," as Starr has sanctimoniously and, I think, accurately reminded us, what is he doing chatting with the woman who once abetted a similar Hail Mary p.r. effort by Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley? In going on ABC less than a week after visiting the House Judiciary Committee and appealing directly to the American people on matters both of substance ("There is no excuse for perjury. Never, never, never") and style (Starr confessed to having seen "any number of" R-rated movies), the special prosecutor was practicing the sort...
...long as you don't count sex and violence, there's no human impulse older than the urge to find a nice, affordable house, something outside of town but not too far. In Crabgrass Frontier, the essential history of suburbanization, Kenneth T. Jackson quotes a letter to the King of Persia, inscribed on a clay tablet and dated 539 B.C., that describes the pleasures of the Ur-suburb. (Literally. It was in Ur.) "Our property...is so close to Babylon that we enjoy all the advantages of the city, and yet when we come home we are away from...