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...lawsuit details 12 instances in which inventions of Chase-Riboud have allegedly ended up in the shooting script. However, at least to a critic's eye, many of the examples appear to be trivial or forced. For example, the suit alleges that Chase-Riboud invented the notion that the rebellion's leader, Cinque, had a son, which is also suggested in the film, but other histories say he did indeed have children. One of the suit's most substantive claims is that both works include a fictional black abolitionist who aids in the Africans' legal case. But there...
Your report on the U.S. Justice department's antitrust suit against Microsoft [BUSINESS, Nov. 3] had a balanced view and was well written. But the issue is not whether Microsoft is a monopoly or uses unfair practices, such as requiring its hardware partners to put its Web browser, Internet Explorer, on the computers they make. The question is, Should the government do anything about it? It ought to break Microsoft into two or three companies and then get out of the way and let them compete. CHIEH CHANG Hillsborough, Calif...
...your article on being awake during surgery [MEDICINE, Nov. 3]. Some years ago, my grandmother survived hip-replacement surgery despite her claim that she had not been anesthetized. She spoke of her excruciating pain and fear to the two doctors the day following surgery. When we decided to file suit to protect other patients, there were attempts to make her seem incompetent and thus invalidate her claims. No matter. Her attorney had her IQ tested to prove competency (145 IQ at age 78). I certainly knew that she wasn't nuts and that she would not accuse someone without reason...
...Near outer space. The U-2 can fly above 70,000 feet. Its cruising speed is a relatively slow 430 m.p.h., which can make it vulnerable (seven have been shot down), and its range is more than 4,000 miles. Dress code for pilots: a full-pressure astronaut-like suit when flying. They breathe 100% oxygen and wear UCDs--urinary-collection devices--for obvious reasons...
...issue resurfaced with fresh hysteria a few weeks ago, when Boston University filed a lawsuit against eight outfits that actually sell papers, via the Web, to students too lazy or dumb to write their own. Sahr, you should know, is not a defendant in that suit since the thousands of papers at his site--on every subject from "The Tragedy of the Black Death" to "Why Nuclear Fusion Is So Cool"--are yours to download for free. (Help yourself.) But he runs the biggest of the term-paper sites, so everyone wants to interview him about this trivial and silly...