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...This is our livelihood. We think this is totally unfair," Sheerin said. "We can't afford to have a negative reaction...
...Maybe I'm being unfair, maybe I wouldn't even remember if it hadn't been for the brouhaha later on, maybe I've got the sequence of events mixed up, too, but I'm not inventing any of it."And so it goes-the tone of German writer Ingo Schulze's new volume of vignettes as novel Simple Stories-clear, punctuated, particularly elegant. Written in the spirit of Winesburg, Ohio, Schulze's musings over the post-Wall East German hamlet Altenburg have been compared to the styles of both Sherwood Anderson and Raymond Carver...
...month after a ruling in the Microsoft antitrust lawsuit that found the software company guilty of anti-competitive behavior. In that case, Lessig had advised Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson that Microsoft's policy of "tying" its web browser with its Windows operating system may have given the company an unfair advantage over its competitors...
Rather, local dealers say, the Smith & Wesson agreement is unfair to them. They are upset less about the deal's most publicized element--to require safety locks on all handguns--than about other regulations in the 24-page agreement. For instance, to sell Smith & Wessons, dealers must require all employees to pass a written test on firearm safety. And they must agree to secure the guns in fireproof safes at night. "This store is a windowless block that hasn't had a robbery in 50 years," says Kay Miculek, owner of Clark Custom Guns in Princeton, La. "I'd have...
...asked how many stock options his interrogator had and whether that number had any impact on his decision to come to work every day. The human capacity for grievance is deep and universal. Even among these most rational members of the species, grievance seems immune to the reality that "unfair to Microsoft" is the world's least sympathetic cri de coeur, even if it's true...