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Asgharzadeh, who read out the first incendiary communique on the siege that sickened the world, has come a long way in 20 years, and he is not the only one. Many of his fellow militants have also mellowed and are slipping out of the shadows of revolutionary Iran to acknowledge their roles, admit to a few regrets and argue that their cause is finally maturing. All three of the original planners of the siege, it turns out, are now key figures in moderate President Mohammed Khatami's government. Asgharzadeh smiles at the thought of a hostage taker becoming a democrat...
...reaching as the total dismemberment of the Gates empire. And more potential bad news: these findings of fact could be used by a host of competitors to bring their own civil antitrust actions against Microsoft. The reverberations will be felt for some time throughout the high-tech world--and by the tens of millions of Americans who have a stake in this battle because they own Microsoft stock. (For what this means to investors, see Dan Kadlec's Personal Time column...
...Absolutely, and deliberately so. "We're a family store," says Wal-Mart CEO David Glass, and "we try to have something for everyone." And just as in real families, there is conflict about who gets what. Last week the company was pinned by a consumer who demanded that a World Wrestling Federation action doll be yanked from the shelves because both the wrestler it depicted, Al Snow, and the doll carry a prop that looks like a woman's severed head...
...Mart's world, there is accounting for taste. For instance, the video section stocks the risque comedy There's Something About Mary. And there's something in it that more than a few folks would find objectionable. Says movie buyer Eddie Tutt: "It's pretty crude, but [the movie] did $175 million in sales, which kind of tells you that most of the public looked at it and probably felt good about it." Which tells Tutt that unlike, say, Howard Stern's crude movie, Private Parts, which Wal-Mart did not carry, Mary will light up the cash registers...
...even before we get there, the nation's biggest shopkeeper will be less able to stick to its preferred role as an agnostic buyer for the masses. There's a world full of outraged parents, students, environmentalists, activists, politicians and stockholders complaining with equal fervor about the silly and the serious. Says Glass: "The public in general becomes a little harder to serve all the time. But you have to respond to that." In other words, Wal-Mart is no longer a free agent...