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...nevertheless be the kind they should get used to. The Microsoft antitrust trial--where Gates was pilloried with his own e-mail--taught America not to archive e-mail. Dumpstergate's lesson is that if you're going to record data on anything as retro as paper and use anything as low tech as a Dumpster, you'd better remember to use a shredder...
...told I.G.I. not to break any laws. And he says he did not know in advance that investigators would pick through garbage. Apologize? Forget it. "What exactly did we do?" he asked at his news conference. "What is our corporate espionage? Our corporate espionage is to find out that Microsoft has hired all these companies, these front organizations, and while they pretend to be independent, publishing all sorts of things that are anti-Oracle and pro-Microsoft...
...tech circles, opinion on Dumpstergate is mixed. Microsoft's critics were forgiving. "While what Ellison did was distasteful, the facts that were exposed were despicable," says J. Michael Washe, founder of the website Breakupmicrosoft.org But many neutral parties were worried that the tech industry was stooping to new lows in skulduggery. "It's not the kind of use of resources anyone can be proud of," says Ruben Barrales, president of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network, a nonprofit economic-development organization...
...Osama bin __, who has been linked to the Philippines' Moro Islamic Liberation Front 29. The Library of Congress has opened a show dedicated to her 33. D.C.'s Pennsylvania, for one 34. Dough raiser 36. www.time.com e.g. 37. Intel's CEO, who's downplayed the impact of a Microsoft split 39. Hero of the NBA championship 41. Siouan-speaking tribesmen 43. Olympus Mountains peak 44. Ohio representative Tony, who is seeking a congressional apology for slavery 47. Succumb to the throwing yips, say 49. Bikini, for one 51. Fijian rebel leader, whose armed takeover of parliament...
...Microsoft's natural habitats 2. Justice Fortas 3. Inits. on rebel uniforms 4. O.K. Corral figure 5. Ivory __, where coup rumors abound 6. Einstein's birthplace 7. The A.E.F. went Over There to win it 8. Senator Tom, who wants to limit teen work hours 9. "Got two fives for __?" 10. Barr's Cabinet successor 11. Guitar bar 16. Robert Conrad wants him investigated 20. Meat-loaf serving 21. __ Nagila 22. River to the Baltic 24. Taper off 25. Treasure Island monogram 26. Explorer Hernando de __ 28. Refusenik's refusal 30. Form 1040 deduction 31. 401(k) cousins 32. First...