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...case, of course, is the government's landmark antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft. And it's a fair bet the case was at least one of the reasons for Gates' congressional group hug. Two days earlier, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson had issued a toughly worded ruling that did just what everyone expected: it branded Microsoft an "oppressive" monopolist and laid the legal groundwork for imposing what could be draconian remedies in the next few months. It was a sharp blow to Microsoft--the company's shares plunged almost 15% the day of the ruling and helped set off last week...
...Excellent, to Moody's 4. No room to swing __ 8. Freeman Gosden radio role 12. Japanese volcano that has recently erupted 13. Hosiery shade 14. A paramecium has one 15. This Seattle landmark is history 17. Saddam Hussein's son, who has won a National Assembly seat 18. Attacks suddenly 19. Paul's Exodus role 20. Sign of summer 21. American Beauty Oscar winner 24. Phi Beta Kappa concern: Abbr. 26. Reform Party chairman Choate 27. Actuary's concern 28. It may be floated 29. NBC has pulled the plug on __, the Devil, and Bob 30. A newspaper here ended...
...West Coast architect whose flamboyant hotels and drive-in restaurants monumentalized America's car culture; in Arcadia, Calif. The neon gulch of casino classics he carved in Las Vegas included the El Rancho and Sands. In Los Angeles, one of his Bob's Big Boy eateries is a state landmark...
...same day (after the close of the stock markets). Having already delivered his "finding of fact" - that Microsoft is indeed a monopoly - the judge is expected to find that Microsoft used that monopoly in violation of antitrust law. That will be followed by the the final phase of the landmark antitrust trial, expected to last several months, in which Jackson will determine a remedy that could range from a fine against the software giant to a breakup of the company. That's bad news for the boys from Washington State, since any decision Jackson makes could serve as potentially damaging...
DIED. MORRIS ABRAM, 81, civil-rights lawyer, Jewish leader and former Brandeis University president who shepherded a landmark 1962 voting-rights case to the Supreme Court, which overturned a Georgia law that gave more weight to votes from mostly white rural areas; in Geneva, Switzerland. A former United Negro College Fund chairman, Abram served as the first general counsel of the Peace Corps and co-founded UN Watch to monitor the United Nations...