Word: rump
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...Microsoft has won, somebody forgot to tell California, Florida, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Utah, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. The rump of the prosecution is soldiering on, collecting evidence and preparing for new hearings sometime next year. Though tempted to settle, the dissenters decided they had been through too much to win so little. "We want real reform," says California attorney general Bill Lockyer. "Not a fig leaf." (California, like Massachusetts and Utah, is home to some of Microsoft's fiercest competitors...
...those who aren't so trusting, it will be a long, sleepless road to the courtroom. Microsoft is not inclined to give another inch on the deal. Iowa attorney general Tom Miller, leader of the rump, is girding for battle, even as his ranks are decimated. "Before it was Goliath vs. Goliath," he says. "Now it's David vs. Goliath. We don't mind being David." There will be no snoring in his office for some time to come...
...despite suffering heavy losses in various battles in the north, the Taliban appear to have retreated from Kabul rather than having been routed. That leaves the rump of the movement now heading for its Pashtun heartland, where the political-military equation is somewhat reversed - while the Northern Alliance was on home ground clearing the Taliban out of the north (and even, to some extent, Kabul itself), the south may be beyond its reach. The Alliance is composed primarily of ethnic Uzbeks, Tajiks and Hazaras, and is viewed with hostility even among anti-Taliban Pashtuns...
...victory at Mazar-i-Sharif sets the stage for a de facto partition of Afghanistan into a northern arc controlled by the anti-Taliban alliance and a southern rump controlled by the Taliban. The main battle to take down the Taliban and the Al Qaeda network may lie ahead, but the Northern Alliance's newly won territory offers tremendous opportunity for the U.S. to intensify its campaign all over Afghanistan. The Pentagon's first priority may be to establish new air bases inside this zone, which can be used not only to resupply the Alliance and any expanded U.S. troop...
Nonetheless the Administration continues to insist that the President will produce a coherent--if unspecified--global-warming policy soon. Environmentalists are fearing the worst. Before Bush's CO2 reversal, the White House created a so-called carbon rump group to reassess the U.S. position on emissions. An Administration official insists that the work the panel is doing is "a high-level, intense review," and while that may be true, it's also a fact that in-house study teams such as this are often simply places where orphan ideas are sent to die. More substantively, Vice President Cheney has been...