Word: patients
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Unfortunately for Microsoft, the patient isn't even bleeding. Bill Gates' famously evasive testimony and the parade of Microsoft's victims have hurt the company, at least in the eyes of the press. But the case's central tenet--that Microsoft illegally leveraged its operating-systems monopoly--still stands, whatever AOL does with Netscape. Even before the $4.2 billion buyout was announced, government economist Frederick Warren-Boulton was framing it as more evidence of Microsoft's strong-arming. "Netscape has been forced to the wall," he said. "That's an unfortunate outcome of what Microsoft has been doing." Touche...
Dartboard has been patient. We are confident that this week's downright balmy weather will pass eventually, and that despite the threat of global warming, the traditionally bleak New England winter we know and love will return sooner or later--with a vengeance, we hope. At the very least, it has to snow at some point...
...Oklahoman introduces diversity to a slate that has white men from Texas and Louisiana in the top three spots. And Republicans also hope that the football star turned Baptist minister who speaks about "politics of the human heart" will transform the party's image from preachy and vindictive to patient and caressing. Says Florida Congressman Bill McCollum of Watts: "He just exudes, 'I care...
...training" who accompanies her father, a logger, when he hunts for food in northern Minnesota, reports that "my favorite part is taking time to wait and see what you're hunting for. Sometimes you have to wait a long time. You have to be quiet. You have to be patient." This from an eight-year...
...faces a series of serious criminal charges stemming from his years of authoritarian rule. A continued stay in the hospital had obviously helped the General pursue his strategy of fight and delay, but no more: His next British court date is set for December 11. For the now-well patient, it may be time -- if not to open all the dossiers -- at least to open all the windows and welcome in that London...