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...Microsoft media pack was out in force last week outside Chicago's prestigious Standard Club. Its target was Judge Richard Posner, the recently appointed mediator in the government's landmark antitrust lawsuit. When reporters fired questions at Posner just before his first meeting with the parties, he had a crisp answer: "Get out of my way, please...
...Microsoft case. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson last month appointed Posner to try to mediate the case, and the action has now moved from Jackson's courthouse in Washington to Chicago, where Posner is presiding over closed-door conferences intended to push Microsoft and the Justice Department toward settlement. It's a daunting task: the government seems to want a lot more than Microsoft is willing to give up. But if anyone can get an agreement, it may be the brilliant and insanely workaholic Posner...
...Michael Posner, executive director of the Lawyer's Committee for Human Rights, one of the non-governmental organizations instrumental in the formation of the FLA, defended the group, saying that it hasmuch potential...
...credible system of public oversight,"Posner said. "It's going to take a lot of work;[about] 20 employees will work on this on afull-time basis. It's unrealistic to think theuniversities are going to be able to do a betterjob...
...Still, Posner said he welcomes any efforts byHarvard to independently address the sweatshopissue...