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Since Microsoft can't enter new evidence on appeal, the company must argue that the government and the judge put the wrong spin on the stuff that's already in the record. This is familiar territory for Microsoft, which has long insisted that all those venomous e-mails and extracts from Gates' videotaped deposition were taken out of context. For example, Microsoft will claim that its brutal campaign against Netscape during the browser wars was ultimately benign, not anticompetitive; both sides issued rapid-fire improvements to their Web browsers, millions of programs were distributed for free, and the Internet revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grounds For Appeal | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...Sturdy, a proven scorer at power forward coming into the season, was easily the Crimson's most potent threat. She earned First Team All-Ivy honors with spin moves and rebounds in the paint, and could also draw defenders out to the three-point line. She hovered around 50 percent all year from beyond the arc and stayed in the top five in the country in three-point percentage for much of the year. A lack of attempts cut her from the official list down the stretch...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fresh Faces Lead W. Hoops into Second | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...While storeowners say the stories of Briggs & Briggs, the Bow and most recently Sage's are indicative of a worrisome trend, Robin A. Lapidus of the Harvard Square Business Association says the fears result from overreaction and negative spin...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sunset in the Square | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

Ignore the spin - Bill Clinton's valedictory Moscow summit had all the warmth of a bargaining session between divorce lawyers. He and President Vladimir Putin failed to make any progress on the vexing question of missile defense, and the Russians signaled their displeasure with the U.S. president by failing to broadcast his speech to the Russian legislature on TV. "It was extremely important to the surviving pro-Western elements in Russia's political elite that Clinton get a chance to make the case for liberalization to the Russian public," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "That didn't happen because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow's Chilly Rebuff Leaves Clinton in a Bind | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

Does accurate history matter? Maybe it's necessarily all projection? Maybe there isn't any final draft - only addition and revision, praise and debunking, the endless spin and counterspin of ideology and propaganda? Tolstoy said, "History would be a wonderful thing, if only it were true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Takes Time to Sort the Spin From the Truth | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

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