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Antitrust is one of the most labyrinthine fields of law, relying on nuanced readings of complex statutes and analogies to dusty cases about oil refineries and railroad gauges. But the Justice Department decided to make things simple on the first day of its sweeping antitrust suit against Microsoft: it dispensed with the case law and put Bill Gates front and center. A disembodied, larger-than-life Gates hovered over Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's courtroom on a 10-ft.-tall computerized video monitor during much of government lawyer David Boies' opening statement. The thrust of Boies' argument: the fidgety, spectral...
...groups debating whether Gates is the devil and Microsoft the Evil Empire. Search the Web for sites that pair the words Gates and Satan, and you'll turn up tens of thousands of hits. Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig was a court-appointed monitor in an earlier Justice Department suit against Microsoft before Gates' lawyers uncovered an old e-mail in which Lessig joked that when he installed Microsoft's browser on his computer he "sold his soul...
...Republican, trying to attract attention by legally changing his middle name from Anthony to (Low Tax). The stunt--parentheses and all--did little to disguise his idiosyncrasies. Looper is already under indictment on charges of misuse of office and, in June, had been slapped with a $1.2 million paternity suit by his live-in girlfriend. (He reacted to her charges with a press release saying he had been shocked to discover she was an ex-stripper, and that all she had left him were "heart palpitations, a small box of memorabilia and a red G-string.") Looper was not considered...
...Toni Morrison, but he says this week's story on Tom Wolfe was one of his most intimidating endeavors. "I was nervous about interviewing Wolfe because he is a superb interviewer himself," admits Gray. "And then there's the issue of what to wear." Gray put on his best suit to meet the author, whom he found "extraordinarily gracious and extremely well dressed." Gray, who on average reads three books a week, says Wolfe's latest novel, A Man in Full, offers "a deep look at society without skimping on pizazz and wretched excess." JOEL STEIN, who wrote this week...
Band leader Jim Mathus came out wearing a purple suit and a grin. The group appeared comfortably at ease in the dark blues and golds of the Roxy and its small stage. Unlike the Orpheum show, the crowd here was not only allowed to stand and dance, it was encouraged to; Dancers could be seen at various points around the club, but in general, one was either dancing or more often, straining to see the band--a sight which, fortunately, was neither difficult to obtain nor disappointing; the Roxy was so small that any vantage point gave a close view...