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...Court of Appeals dealt the Department of Justice a body blow by reversing Jackson's injunction ordering Microsoft to quit tying its Web browser to Windows. That decision has since been glorified by Microsoft attorneys, who see it as their salvation. But as Assistant Attorney General Joel Klein points out, "The court said it was writing without the benefit of a factual record." Now they've got 78 days' worth of testimony, much of it arguing that Microsoft's motivation was more to hurt competitors than to help consumers...
Mark came of age at a moment when a lot of young photographers were looking at the unsentimental pictures of Robert Frank, William Klein and Diane Arbus and wondering whether their saturnine styles could be fitted to the warmer aims of documentary photography. Arbus, especially, didn't seem to take much interest in the people in her pictures for themselves. What she cared about was how they could function as emblems of the various beasts within us. Mark is not such a remote operator. She plainly does care about the struggling families and strenuously upbeat old people she has photographed...
...lobbyists to lead the fight, arguing that two years will go by awfully fast and that the new United has too much brawn in northeast ports to possibly resist stomping rivals and hiking fares. American ought to know - regulators have already sued them for similar misdeeds - and Joel Klein and the gang are expected to look long and hard before letting this deal...
...string of acquisitions by the southern-fried CEO - would be one of the largest corporate mergers ever, a joining of the No. 2 and No. 3 long-distance carriers that posed a serious threat to leader AT&T. But now Justice staffers have formally recommended to head trustbuster Joel Klein that the merger be blocked, on the grounds that a company with one third of the U.S. long-distance market and a dominant position in the Internet switching business would control too much information infrastructure to be healthy for consumers...
...Klein has invited lawyers for both of the betrothed to come to his office and defend the marriage, but MCI Worldcom isn't wasting any time making the deal look more palatable. The company reiterated that it is willing to sell all or part of its Internet "backbone" - the switching-provider part of the deal, which also worries European regulators - to help soothe antitrust regulators. A spokesman said Thursday that the company currently is in the process of defining exactly what business units are a part of that backbone and spinning them off into a separate division. Meeting the feds...