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Time was running out. Microsoft had announced plans to release Windows 98 to manufacturers this week. The Department of Justice wanted to file an antitrust suit before that happened. As the hours evaporated, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates asked for a final session in which to plead his case for allowing Windows 98 to be marketed without any Federal Government objections. And so on Tuesday evening, at the headquarters of Microsoft?s Washington lobbyists, Gates met Joel Klein, the department?s top antitrust enforcer...
...this mess. At that time, last summer, the future didn't look so bleak to Letourneau. She was still talking to her other four children, her "angels," even though they were moving to Alaska with their dad Steven. True, her lawyer, David Gehrke, was telling her she had to plead guilty to "rape of a child." Such a ridiculous charge, she thought. Why couldn't everyone realize that Vili had come on to her for months? But Dave and his wife Susan were friends from the neighborhood, good people who assured her that Dave had obtained a good deal...
...long months that she waited to plead guilty (last summer) and be sentenced (in November), Mary and Steve barely spoke. According to Spin, she had to sleep in the car outside their home because she was under court orders not to live in the same house as children, even her own. In a series of interviews with the TV tabloid show American Journal, Steve said he cried often during this period and his children were confused and devastated...
...zeal to capitalize on this unusual advantage, our elected representatives have proposed a harsher version of the deal struck last summer between the companies and numerous states to reduce teenage smoking. In response, the tobacco bosses have threatened to pull out of the negotiations with Congress and plead their case before the public. The O. J.-like contortions needed to convince us that these merchants of death are deserving of our sympathy will be so absurd that it'll be hard not to be amused...
Starr's last-gasp witness was former Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker. Already convicted for his role in one Whitewater scheme, Tucker agreed in February to cooperate with Starr's office and plead guilty to another minor charge. Some Clinton watchers thought Tucker's cooperation could devastate the President, but sources tell TIME that Tucker is not giving Starr enough to make a case against Clinton...