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...ruling left plenty of dark clouds hovering over Microsoft just as the company is releasing a phalanx of products designed to strengthen its Internet strategy, including Windows XP, its updated operating system. The court affirmed Judge Jackson's two most damning holdings--that Microsoft is a monopoly and that it engaged in illegal anticompetitive acts. The court sent the case back to the trial court for new hearings that could result in substantial remedies against Microsoft--even, although it's now unlikely, another breakup order. Perhaps most troubling: the ruling could pave the way for a flood of private antitrust...
...PAKISTAN Power Play In an unexpected move, Pakistan's military ruler General Pervez Musharraf declared himself President. The General, who seized power from the elected government 20 months ago, dismissed President Rafiq Tarar to strengthen his bargaining power when he meets India's Prime Minister for summit talks on July 14. Musharraf, who appointed Finance Minister Shaukut Aziz as Prime Minister, now holds the country's top five jobs...
...leader of the (leftist guerrilla movement) Farabundo Mart? Front for National Liberation in El Salvador didn't look good. Her past painted her as somebody quite likely to be connected with a guerilla movement in Peru. The fact that she refused to criticize (the MRTA) also helped strengthen the case against...
...Plainly, just as we were always wanting to deal with China during Cold War to break the Sino-Soviet alliance, now that the U.S. is the sole superpower it makes sense for the Russians to want to draw in China to strengthen their own position...
...There is another complicating factor: shifting political institutions and allegiances within the country. The Labour government sold the idea of a new Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly as ways to strengthen the Union. It may be having the opposite effect. Though most English approve of this devolution, there are strains. Scottish M.P.s at Westminster can vote on English laws, for example, but English M.P.s have no vote on many Scottish matters. There is also irritation that the Scots, unlike the English, now only pay their university fees once they start earning. A recent survey found that 17% of people...