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Four hours after the Bush-Gore press conference, Joel Klein, head of the Justice Department's antitrust team, filed a motion with Judge Thomas Penrod Schofield calling for the breakup of the existing Democratic and Republican parties into twelve different entities (including Buchananites, Golfing Republicans, Squishy Libs, Nader Greens, Anxious NASDAQs, Reagan Dems, Evangelical Christians, Seattle Street Nuts and Libertarians...
...French outfit? Maybe. European business does think nationally first, and officials there may be underestimating U.S. companies' determination to compete with each other. But Monti has a record of being plenty tough on Eurodeals, too, and he has as many detractors among Europe's pols and CEOs as Klein does in Redmond (well, maybe not that many). There's little sign of ulterior motives in Monti's vigilance - Klein would be complaining if there were, and the two are fast friends - but it won't hurt his popularity at home either...
Mario Monti doesn't necessarily hate America. The European Union's Competition Commissioner, the Joel Klein of the Continent, is Italian, after all, not French. But this week his commission moved to block the WorldCom-Sprint deal and launched an investigation into AOL-Time Warner (parent of this site), and in the past year it has started similar probes into deals by Boeing and Microsoft. Could Monti's evident distaste for American corporate marriages be less about antitrust law than geopolitics...
...JOEL KLEIN You're the alpha male, your post-Clinton $$$ way up. Now please don't destroy our economy...
...Bill Gates' haircut b) Joel Klein's haircut c) Steve Ballmer's "Five Lessons for Managing a Company Under Siege" d) its effect on sales of grandfather clocks in Seattle...