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...professors are not the first to accuse Ask Jeeves of patent infringement. Last July, in a suit that is still pending, Mountain View's IPLearn LLC, a company that uses natural language queries, filed a similar patent infringement suit in Oakland, Calif. Ask Jeeves denied the accusation...

Author: By Nate P. Gray, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MIT Profs Sue Ask Jeeves Over Patent Use | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...them to win. The implications remain troubling: what would a bookie taking Rose's action infer if the manager of the Reds, who bet on them regularly, didn't bet on them that particular day? "There had not been such grave allegations since the time of [Kenesaw Mountain] Landis," said then commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti in 1989, referring to the commissioner who cleaned up the 1919 Black Sox scandal. Confronted with this evidence, Rose agreed to a lifetime ban from the sport but didn't specifically admit to betting on baseball. Implicit in the agreement, according to former commissioner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Thorn in Pete Rose | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...acknowledged that his goal would be hard to meet. He estimated that as many as 6 of every 10 students would flunk if they had to advance on merit. Zacarias wanted to spend $140 million in the first year alone to help these kids. Why so much? Because a mountain of research shows that ending social promotion doesn't work if it just means more Fs. Kids who are simply forced to repeat grades over and over usually don't improve academically and often drop out. Zacarias wanted more tutoring, summer school and intensive-learning classes. Unqualified students wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slowing Down a Quick Fix | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...addition, the rudeness on both sides of the argument really bothered me. The least she could have done, in initiating the whole rhubarb to begin with, was come up with some polite yet clever way of scolding me: "Lovely mountain bike. Perhaps it would function best in the wilderness." And I would not have retorted so contemptuously. "Such is the urban jungle," I would reply, eyes twinkling, and we'd both go our merry ways...

Author: By George W. Hicks, | Title: Don't Be Rude | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...Worcester. As a firefighter myself, it is very hard to witness such a tragedy unfold as we did last Friday night. It is an unspeakable tragedy to lose one firefighter, let alone six as we did Friday, or 14 as we did five years ago on Storm King Mountain in Colorado...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

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