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...opportunity to tear down the region's governments and replace them with toadies. In Mahathir's play, the pound of flesh has already been torn away. Like its neighbors, Malaysia lies bleeding, but when Korea, Thailand and Indonesia eagerly gulped down $150 billion in IMF bailout loans, Mahathir wanted none of the West's medicine. Shylock, after all, was no healer...
...Department asked him about his business practices under oath last week, but the feds are also alleging that Microsoft beat on everyone from Apple to Intel "at the specific and pointed direction of Bill Gates." The charges, contained in a hefty 89-page court filing released Tuesday, constitute a none-too-subtle warning to the tousle-haired billionaire -- be more forthcoming in your final deposition Wednesday, or we'll throw the book...
...against Microsoft's demand that the whole antitrust case be thrown out of court. Is there enough beef here, or is the government just scrambling to fill the gap left by the recent appeals court ruling -- which decided that tying Internet Explorer to Windows was a legal integration? Well, none of the allegations are really surprising -- bullying Real Networks, Intuit and Apple are all par for the course, while there isn't a nerd alive who doesn't know what Microsoft thinks of Sun. What is new is how close the feds place Gates to the center of the action...
Every male over the age of 13 has lied about his sex life, and I couldn't care less about Clinton's liaisons. It's not a matter of national importance, and it's none of our business. Investigators such as Ken Starr make McCarthyism look like child's play. It's frightening to see how our government is in peril because of a twentysomething twit. We are heading down a dangerous road with these investigations, and I hope our representatives realize that everyone can be subjected to this invasive process. ANNE M. CORE Sonoma, Calif...
...find some embarrassing revelation--maybe some weasel words from the publishing house that had given assurances of the manuscript's authenticity--but that little harm could come of it all beyond a couple of years in the pokey for Irving. Even if there had been cable-news channels then, none of them would have had a format that could have been described as "all Clifford, all the time...