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...teenager should be awarded sheafs of Rimbaud for daring to transgress Miklavcic's and, I might add, the United States' repressive legislation by tasting the Dionysian delight that the ancients dared not withhold from their young. The herd instinct of this puritan university would have us agree with Miklavcic's judgements though most of us secretly empathize with the 16-year...
...Justice didn't put Gates on display just to make him look bad. The video set up Boies' third witness, Apple senior vice president Avadis Tevanian. Apple says Microsoft threatened to withhold a key piece of software--Microsoft Office for Macintosh--unless Apple joined Microsoft's war on Netscape's Internet browser. But Gates offered Boies no help on this point. Presented with what seemed to be a smoking gun--an e-mail to Gates from Microsoft executive Don Bradford saying that "Mac Office is the perfect club" to get Apple to take actions that "significantly/materially disadvantage Netscape"--Gates claimed...
...means of a magical TV repairman played by Don Knotts--into a black-and-white '50s TV show called "Pleasantville," reminiscent of Ozzie and Harriet. Once there, the brother and sister try to play along with the "Honey, I'm home!" fakeness of the town, but they can't withhold all of their real world sensibilities. As the ideas they bring with them (art, sex, danger) leak into the town, color starts appearing on roses, on houses and eventually on people. Not knowing what will happen the next day and learning to live with real human emotions are what turn...
...fact, these workers are lucky to get wages at all. Says Kwong: "Employers know that the workers can't complain, so they withhold wages, claiming manufacturers were slow to pay. It has become standard practice to withhold six weeks' pay or more." The vast numbers of new arrivals have depressed wages throughout Chinatown 30% in the past five years. Dishwashing jobs, for instance, which once paid $800 a month...
...owners argued that the right to withhold pay by imposing a lockout was a tenet of labor...