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...little ironic, and probably a pretty bad omen, that just as the three-day "cooling-off period" between Microsoft and the U.S. Justice Department reached its climax this weekend, the temperature in Washington soared into the 90s and the negotiators were driven out of their conference room in the 60-year-old main Justice building for lack of weekend air conditioning. They beat the heat in the offices of Microsoft's lawyers, Sullivan and Cromwell, but even there cooler heads did not prevail. In a matter of hours, the negotiations collapsed. "The government's theories for the personal computer industry...
...berg as a schooner, a basilica, an image of the Virgin Mary, Star of the Sea. As the rest or the town awakens, the drunken lighthouse keeper believe it to be a ship come to rescue him from his delusional exile. A teenage girl believes it as an omen of a new beau. The new parish priest sees it as the Isle of Skellig Michael, drifted from his native Ireland to remind him of his lost love and his current isolation...
...masked men, one armed with a submachine gun, the other with a pistol, burst in and began firing indiscriminately at the customers. Treanor was hit in the head and died before he could greet the new year--a new year that starts off with an ill omen for peace in Northern Ireland...
Techs on the Rocks After yesterday's bad omen from Oracle, NASDAQ was reeling again as tech stocks took another...
...that an omen? It indeed could be such, especially in light of the fire power that it possesses. Look no farther than the Engineer's first line. On one wing you have Matt Garver (44 points), who will be centered by Alain St. Hillaire (44 points). And don't forget the other wing, which is taken up by last year's ECAC leading scorer and All-American Eric Healey (56 points). In essence, RPI possessed what could be considered the nation's most potent line...