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Justice department lawyers should have known Stanley Sporkin wouldn't just rubber-stamp the Microsoft settlement. When antitrust chief Anne Bingaman urged the bearish federal judge to approve it, Sporkin growled back: "Will the government give me a pen to sign, or can I use my own? I've got to have some role here...
...Altars (Random House; 322 pages; $21), Katherine Mosby audaciously bucks such fashionable themes, and the result is a stunningly lyrical work of fiction. Set in the South during the 1920s and '30s, the novel revolves around the suffering of Vienna Daniels-a woman, Mosby writes, whose "face had the stamp of character intelligence sometimes bestows, and the look of ruined beauty...
Epps' Rubber Stamp...
Fine says that in the past the COCL "used to bea rubber stamp for Dean Epps' decisions." But Finesays the students on the committee have sincedeclared their independence. "We've made the COCLa place where students have a voice," he says...
...because he commands strategic loyalties among generals, police and party conservatives. He is also virtually untarnished by the Tiananmen massacre; unofficial accounts say he abstained from a Politburo vote on whether to send in the military. His leadership abilities and attempt to bring some clout to the traditionally rubber-stamp Congress will be put to the test when it meets in March...