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...later, Ronald Reagan's zeroed in on organized crime and drugs. Ashcroft's opponents question whether he will diligently prosecute civil rights violations, which include not only discrimination but also blocking access to abortion clinics. Will big polluters face environmental prosecution? Will Ashcroft press the government's case against Microsoft as the company appeals...
...real thing. "The Eclipse will change the way air transport works," says Raburn, 51. "You will think about using your Eclipse almost as quickly as you use a taxi." Raburn, the son of a McDonnell Douglas engineer, started flying at 17 and later became the 18th employee hired by Microsoft. He left the company in 1982, then worked at Lotus Development Corp. and for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. It was when he met famed enginemaker Sam Williams in the mid-1990s that the dream for Eclipse was hatched...
When I was covering the Microsoft antitrust trial, the company invited me to have breakfast with its legal team. We covered all the basics: whether Microsoft was a monopoly, whether its actions had caused "consumer harm." But what stuck with me was a remark by a high-level Microsoft executive. He had heard I once worked for a federal judge he knew. The more I tried to focus on the antitrust issues, the more I kept wondering how this man I'd never met summoned up this nugget from my past...
That little mystery is solved in Ken Auletta's absorbing new book, World War 3.0: Microsoft and its Enemies (Random House; 436 pages; $27.95). Microsoft kept dossiers on reporters who covered the trial, including former jobs, friends and perceived biases. All things considered, it probably wasn't a great idea. In the middle of a lawsuit accusing Microsoft of being controlling and intimidating, it just made the company look, well, controlling and intimidating...
...Miners have asked Bush to halt Clinton's aggressive use of an 1872 mining law that the industry says makes it too easy to block development. Business groups want to overturn a rule that bars companies from federal contracts if they have been accused of violating a federal law. Microsoft hopes that Bush's body language from the campaign means his Justice Department will drop, or at least tone down, the government's case against the software giant. Tobacco companies are counting on Bush to give up the 1999 federal racketeering suit against them. And in his final month...