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...that Clinton didn't engage him on his favorite topic, technology. When the golfing ended, the two men went their separate ways. Gates didn't take sides in the Clinton-Dole election a couple of years later. Clinton let his Justice Department pursue a potentially devastating antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tale Of Two Bills | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...clear that they were troubled by this case. Only a few sentences into her argument, the Davises' lawyer was stopped by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. "I'm sure children nationwide tease each other," she said. "Is every one of those incidents going to lead to some sort of lawsuit?" The Justices continued to pepper the attorney with questions: Are schools responsible for sexual misbehavior between children? Should the same standard be applied for adults, teens and children? Aren't these problems better left to psychologists, parents and educators rather than to courts and judges? "Its a question of where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playground Predators? | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...shores seemed like a reasonable response. But Hawaii held him for only three years. Now he's back East with new clients in polluted communities in New York and Massachusetts as well as in Toms River. Has he forgotten the lesson he learned? Is he hunting for another monster lawsuit that will crush him into the ground? Schlichtmann--now married with two children, and seemingly more stable than in his frenetic Woburn days--says no. He claims to have become an apostle for a completely different approach to environmental law. "I don't have another Woburn left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Next Case | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

...would do what she did? Tripp's supporters argue that she had no choice. She possessed, thanks in part to her own inveterate busybodyness, explosive hearsay information about presidential sexual misconduct. And Lewinsky, the voluble informant, was allegedly urging Tripp to commit perjury in the Paula Jones civil lawsuit. What else could Tripp do to buttress any testimony she might be forced to give except start taping Lewinsky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Linda Tripp: The Friend From Hell | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...love to have Diamond Multimedia's Rio, a portable music player ($199) that handles MP3s, a digital format that squeezes CDs down to one-tenth their normal size in megabytes. That makes them small enough to send on the Net. But thanks to a Recording Industry Association of America lawsuit that tried to ban the players--MP3 is the format of choice for audio pirates as well as many legitimate artists--everyone wants one. Diamond says it's sold out through Christmas. But, hey, there's always next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Favorite Things | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

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