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...general, parties to the suit, who followed the Federal Government's lead and agreed to drop the two claims. The state A.G.s have long taken a harder anti-Microsoft line than Justice, and it's unlikely they would have signed on if they had thought doing so would significantly weaken the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Microsoft Uncut | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...Don’t be so sure,” I said. “It seems to me that the intense heat from the fires could weaken the entire structure.” A short time later, I was sadly proven correct...

Author: By Gregory J. Davis, | Title: The End of Innocence: September 11, 2001 | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...senior Senator, Bob Graham, sent top Democratic fund raisers to Hanoi last spring to lure Peterson home. As he and his Vietnamese wife Vi Le were packing in May, Reno broke the blind-siding news that she too might run--setting up a potential north-south rift that could weaken the Democrats as they prepare to battle Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble With Reno | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

...dealing with the intifada, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon believes time and muscle is on Israel's side, and that the only way forward for the Jewish state is to tough it out, for decades if need be, in the belief that the resolve of its enemies will ultimately weaken. But the more dovish Labor party leaders such as Knesset speaker Avram Burg believe Sharon's strategic vision is the more dangerous to Israel's long-term prospects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel's Labor Party: Rabin's Way, or Sharon's? | 9/5/2001 | See Source »

Bush’s dogged persistence already threatens to weaken one such support—an initiative designed to reduce the amount of Russian weapons-grade plutonium that is inadequately guarded and that could be obtained by terrorists or rogue states. The initiative, started by the Clinton administration, would have destroyed a large number of weapons-grade plutonium stores—enough to make 8,000 nuclear bombs—by either converting the material to fuel for power plants or inactivating it by mixing it with radioactive waste. The Bush administration is considering canceling the program because...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: A One-Track Mind | 9/4/2001 | See Source »

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