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...have not followed the antitrust case against Microsoft closely. Nevertheless, as a Windows 95 user for the past four years, I cannot help hoping for a verdict, specially written for Microsoft, that reads, "Warning: This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down." CHRIS MCINTIRE Big Bear City, Calif...
...verdict reflects a growing understanding that breast cancer doesn't always require the most severe treatment. A study released in 1996 showed that for small tumors that haven't spread, removal of the tumor and some surrounding tissue (a lumpectomy) followed by radiation is just as effective as taking off the entire breast. Thanks to women's increasing vigilance, some 85% of the 175,000 cases diagnosed in the U.S. each year are found early enough to avoid radical surgery...
...that based on Motichka's family history and her emotional reaction to her mother's death, mastectomy made more sense. Although Motichka denies it, Cody says at one point she was thinking about a double mastectomy, and he talked her down to one. He plans to appeal the verdict...
...Independent Counsel Ken Starr and his prosecutors. A Little Rock, Ark., federal jury acquitted McDougal of obstruction of justice charges stemming from the Whitewater investigation, and the judge in the case declared a mistrial on two contempt charges after the jury deadlocked on those counts. The not guilty verdict on the obstruction charge is significant, says TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak, who has been following the trial: ?That?s the charge on which the jury was allowed to consider her state of mind, and apparently the jury believed her when she said she was scared of Ken Starr.? McDougal...
...case later this week when he appears before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee to defend the independent counsel statute, which many on Capitol Hill would now like to see quietly buried. Starr will appear before the panel with his critics? accusations of overzealousness confirmed, in their eyes, by the verdict. In addition, Starr will be faced in the days ahead with another decision, which his congressional opponents will be eyeing very closely: Will he decide to retry McDougal on the deadlocked counts? Those who have criticized Starr for his multiple prosecutions in the past will be ready to pounce...