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...familiar it all looks. A three-deep phalanx of police block access to Tiananmen Square until a crowd of thousands, led by young toughs using bicycles as battering rams, breaks the line and surges through. By midnight, tens of thousands of cheering Chinese pour into the political epicenter of Beijing, defying orders to leave. Gangs of bare-chested teenagers climb lampposts to lead the masses in sloganeering. A potentially grim scene for any government. Yet every once in a lucky while, history repeats itself not as tragedy but as fun. Nearly everybody is waving a red flag. Chanters yell: "Long...
...ruling left plenty of dark clouds hovering over Microsoft just as the company is releasing a phalanx of products designed to strengthen its Internet strategy, including Windows XP, its updated operating system. The court affirmed Judge Jackson's two most damning holdings--that Microsoft is a monopoly and that it engaged in illegal anticompetitive acts. The court sent the case back to the trial court for new hearings that could result in substantial remedies against Microsoft--even, although it's now unlikely, another breakup order. Perhaps most troubling: the ruling could pave the way for a flood of private antitrust...
...Petite, girlishly slender and wearing a suit of iridescent ink-blue silk, Arroyo, 53, is nearly dwarfed by her phalanx of aides and bodyguards as she strides, with her fashion-model smile, into a vast, wood-paneled living room in MalacaNang. She exudes the haughtiness of someone for whom privilege is a birthright: Gloria grew up literally roaming the corridors of power. Her father Diosdado Macapagal governed the Philippines from 1961-65, and Arroyo reclaimed her old teenage bedroom when she moved back into the palace. Sitting primly on the edge of a sofa, she comes across like a college...
...phalanx of the nation's largest retailers--Wal-Mart, Sears, Roebuck & Co., and the Limited among them--are suing Visa and MasterCard, saying they too were overcharged. The merchants will argue before a federal judge in Brooklyn that they are forced to accept and pay an artificially high fee on debit-card sales. They hope to wring $8.1 billion from the defendants in this class action--a number that would triple, if they win, under federal antitrust...
...podium scaffolding at the MTV Video Music Awards, bringing a rare bit of unscripted television to an otherwise split-timed evening. Commerford scaled the 15-ft. structure as Limp Bizkit accepted the Best Rock video award. Cameras quickly cut away, but the bassist kept a Wayans family-size phalanx of security at bay for 10 minutes before being hauled down and charged with suspicion of assault and resisting arrest. Rage Against the Machine is renowned as a protest act, but this act of protest had even other musicians stumped. "What exactly is he raging against?" mused Kid Rock. "Podiums...