Word: turned
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WASHINGTON: Get ready for the Bill Gates Show. In one of the most bizarre twists of the antitrust action against Microsoft, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson agreed Tuesday to turn Chairman Bill's forthcoming deposition into a spectator sport. Lawyers for several media companies had resurrected an obscure turn-of-the-century law that says such occasions "shall be open to the public as freely as are trials in open court." And try as he might to ignore it, Jackson had to admit that the statute still stands...
...Army or Navy band--with no vocalist! Let the people sing along if they wish. A really top-notch performance inspires allegiance as nothing else can. But the way many singers and musicians today render the national anthem is an abomination. If I'm watching TV, I turn off the sound until the anthem is finished. DAVID M. BARTHOLOMEW Dundee...
...worked. Thomas "has done more to turn back the clock of racial progress than has perhaps any other African-American public official," says A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., a retired federal judge (who is more qualified for the high court than Thomas). Thomas has voted against minority set-aside programs in federal contracting, against creating majority-black congressional districts and even questioned the logic of Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 landmark ruling that struck down segregated schools. It's the substance of those judicial opinions that offends Thomas' critics--not his complexion...
...more immediate terms, warmer weather also means more disease. The World Health Organization is already reporting a jump in the number of malaria cases, not to mention cholera and the deadly hantavirus. All the more reason for Gore to ride the El Nino bandwagon -- and for you to turn the fan up another notch...
...Although the intelligence community hasn't ruled out any possibility, they're focusing attention on radical Islamic groups who've committed such acts in the past. "But remember," cautions Waller, "the perpetrators very often turn out to be someone other than the first suspects." The arrests in Tanzania of three groups of foreign nationals appears, at this stage, to be a speculative sweep. On the positive side, unlike the frustrating investigation into the 1996 attack on U.S. personnel in Saudi Arabia, officials believe that local authorities will more fully cooperate. But perhaps the most important factor is Washington's unimpeachable...