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...role. They point to the company's newfound interest in campaign finance, notably the $2.5 million Microsoft contributed to President Bush and the Republicans in the 2000 election cycle. The Bush Administration took the unusual step of letting it be known that it is not second-guessing the judgment of Charles James, the recently appointed head of the Justice Department's antitrust division. (In a Senate hearing last week, Justice also disputed charges that it was politically motivated in its attempts to settle the $20 billion lawsuit against the tobacco industry, another big Republican contributor.) Microsoft spokesman Vivek Varma called...
...took over Kabul in 1996, is best known for destroying ancient Buddhist statues and restricting the rights of women. It insists that there is a hadith (a record of the Prophet's sayings) warning people not to listen to music lest molten lead be poured into their ears on Judgment Day. Until then, the Taliban police are wreaking their own violence--against musical instruments and anyone who dares enjoy their...
...working closely with our allies abroad. Our aims will be most successfully accomplished if nations choose to drive out terrorism from their own land, and our most strenuous diplomacy should be employed in encouraging them to do so. But if we possess clear and irrefutable evidence, in our best judgment and in that of our allies, that a nation is sheltering those who have planned the terrorist attacks and who are now planning others, the use of allied military force is justified if necessary to protect U.S. soil...
...cries for revenge echo in some quarters across the country, Executive Dean of Radcliffe Louise Richardson, a government professor who has taught a course on terrorism in years past, cautioned the U.S. government not to rush to judgment. Acknowledging that federal officials will be under a great amount of pressure to respond swiftly, she said she hopes that the government will resist the pressure for immediate action and focus on formulating a plan only after the complete nature of Tuesday’s attacks have been divulged...
...dismantling of environmental legislation for its friends in the power industry, its scrapping of the ABM Treaty, its support of the expensive and useless missile-defense shield, its lack of a Middle East policy and so on. I hope that in the future the news media will use better judgment about what needs to be in the national spotlight. BRIAN STEBLEN Rochester...