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What happened? In two words: Stanley Sporkin. In February the maverick federal judge rejected as inadequate the antitrust decree Gates had negotiated last summer with Assistant Attorney General Anne Bingaman, publically chastising the government's chief trustbuster for failing to curb what he viewed as Microsoft's abuse of a monopoly position. Both the government and Microsoft insist that one case had nothing to do with the other. But someone at Justice seemed to think they might be linked in the court of public opinion. The department assigned more lawyers to its investigation of the Intuit deal right after...
Harvard and its reputation are too precious to put at risk by an entity which is maverick to Harvard's way of doing things. If you have your doubts as to what happens when time-tested procedures are not followed, just take a walk over to the Medical schools and take a gander at the power plant...
...DreamWorks people were looking over their shoulders, then they were probably worried about Maverick (more recycled television, this time with big stars), about The Client and Clear and Present Danger (best-seller adaptations, also with reliable stars) and about True Lies (Arnold, armed, dangerous and in his best mode, the high-tech thriller). All these movies did all right--a little bit less or a little bit more than expected, but in the ballpark, if not always in the field of dreams. But they weren't Gump or Pulp or Weddings, either. That is to say, the sneaky, relatively unheralded...
...could prompt a tougher settlement, requiring Microsoft to let competitors write software for its operating systems, which run some 80 percent of all personal computers. "You have this really bizarre scenario in which the trust-busters have gone to bed with the trust to protect themselves from a maverick judge who is calling it the way it really is," says TIME technology editor Philip Elmer-Dewitt...
Thanksgiving junior year my family took a trip to Plymouth, Mass, and the site where the Pilgrims first landed. Standing on a life-sized replica of the Mayflower, we listened to a tour guide give an impassioned speech on the virtues of our maverick forefathers 400 years...