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...fiercest regulatory sanction Microsoft has received, far exceeding the settlement the company made with the U.S. Justice Department and several states two years ago. In that deal, it agreed to license some of its software code to competitors and let dealers and others remove icons for Microsoft products from computer desktops. This week the Commission will order Microsoft to make its Windows PC operating system available to manufacturers and consumers in two versions: one with Media Player - Microsoft's proprietary video and music software - built in as at present, and one without it. The company is likely to be handed...
...Florentine artist filippino Lippi was the product of a scandalous 15th century love affair: his father, Filippo, an artist and Carmelite friar, was chaplain of Santa Margarita convent in Prato when he ran off with a beautiful nun named Lucrezia Buti. Their illegitimate son, coached by a Florentine painter, became one of the most famous artists of his age, known for the imagination and versatility of his work and patronized by the rich and powerful. The twist in the tale came four centuries later: Filippino's fame had long since faded when England's Pre-Raphaelites "discovered" the genius...
...completed it is registered, and the customer receives a certificate of exclusivity. If you can't wait three months, then Florentine perfumer Lorenzo Villoresi will conjure up a fragrance in a mere two hours. You choose ingredient by ingredient - the master tests their effect on your skin. The final product - a 100-ml bottle of eau de toilette or a 30-ml bottle of eau de parfum - costs $730, and you can also order shampoos, body lotion and bath oils with the same fragrance. The grand master of bespoke scents is the House of Creed in Paris, which has been...
...excusemaking, only one defense hawk was bold enough to declare that waste and fraud were actually good things. "We need more" of them, wrote Edward Luttwak in Commentary. If you're going to build a stronger defense and build it fast, a bit of corruption is a necessary by-product...
...form of scandal is financial abuse and excess. So where is the Luttwak of today who will cut through all the demagoguery and the whining, the outraged criticism and the mealymouthed apologies, and say, Look, you want a vigorous entrepreneurial economy? A bit of excess is a necessary by-product. "We need more" financial abuse--it is a sign that capitalism is working...