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...burdened with technicalities was Microsoft's Friday proposal to settle the government's case against it that a hoped-for weekend settlement was rendered all but impossible. Still, government lawyers, sifting through the complicated details, found several concessions that might allow CEO Steve Ballmer and Joel Klein, the government's chief antitrust officer, to meet and possibly put the matter to rest this week - before U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson rules in a case that was tried last year...
Over time, however, communication broke down in the project designed to promote communication among information systems across the University. Most of the original leaders of the project have left since its beginning. Some of the advisory committees, designed to allow faculties and administrators to share their concerns, were foolishly allowed to cease meeting, while others have met irregularly. The result has been a situation in which end users were forced to deal with otherwise avoidable inconveniences--such as the once-routine tasks that now take a half-hour to complete--leading some to view the project as making...
Last November, the Massachusetts senate passed the Domestic Partnership Bill, which would extend health insurance benefits to same-sex partners of state employees and allow municipalities act similarly. The House has yet to put the bill up for public debate...
Exempting the merged school from the racial quotas will allow the siblings of students who currently attend the two schools to be accepted unconditionally into the new school. Since more black and Latino siblings have been bused to other schools, letting them come to the merged Fletcher-Maynard school would upset the racial balance...
...heels of the fusion of other media giants, like the new America Online-Time Warner. The union of the Tribune and the Times Mirror companies removes local control from one of the best newspapers in the country. It remains to be seen whether this merger will still allow for the autonomy of the various news sources now combined under the Tribune Co. umbrella, rather than leading to a homogenization of reporting...