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...antitrust case. However, Microsoft has been found guilty of using its monopoly power in a wide range of areas, browsing being only the most prominent. Only three elements of Microsoft's proposal would restrict the company's actions in general ways: Microsoft would offer other software vendors timely access to technical information, would not withhold already-written software for other operating systems in order to gain additional concessions and would continue to sell old versions of Windows after new features are introduced...
...there a durable power of attorney? This gives someone appointed by the parents access to their bank accounts to pay bills in case they become incapacitated...
...others. For this second group, life will be especially bleak. Listen to their future as described by Brady Williamson, who teaches constitutional law at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and was chairman of the former National Bankruptcy Review Commission, appointed by Congress in 1995: "A family without access to the bankruptcy system is subject to garnishment proceedings, to multiple collection actions, to repossession of personal property and to mortgage foreclosure. There is virtually no way to save their home and, for the family that does not own a home, no way to ever qualify to buy one." The wage...
...case, Time Warner Cable chairman Joe Collins held an apparent ace. He could shut down access to Disney's ABC network on TW systems at the beginning of May, the "sweeps month," which determines ad rates for the coming broadcast season. But if Collins did play that card, Disney executives surely realized, the public relations victory would be theirs. If you begin with the premise that people don't like their cable company, it would have been hard for TW to win a hearts-and-minds-of-the-public battle with Attila...
...says. And no Internet movie can be applauded until it's downloaded. At a hefty 166 megabytes, Quantum Project can be smoothly swallowed only by the relatively few PCs with super high-speed broadband connections. The majority of Websters, with 56K dial-up modems, could take all night to access the movie--if their computers didn't crash first. And this one, alas, isn't worth the wait...