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Anyone who thinks the death of Syria's ruler Hafez Assad [WORLD, June 19] has dealt a blow to peace in the Middle East is wrong. Assad wanted to force Israel to meet all his demands before the two countries resumed talks. Syria's economy is a shambles, and its people live in poverty. Assad murdered and tortured his own people. JERRY LEVY Walnut Creek, Calif...
...first glance, the higher courts seem considerably more sympathetic to Microsoft than was Judge Jackson. In 1998 the Court of Appeals dealt the Department of Justice a body blow by reversing Jackson's injunction ordering Microsoft to quit tying its Web browser to Windows. That decision has since been glorified by Microsoft attorneys, who see it as their salvation. But as Assistant Attorney General Joel Klein points out, "The court said it was writing without the benefit of a factual record." Now they've got 78 days' worth of testimony, much of it arguing that Microsoft's motivation was more...
Eugenia Wajdenfeld stood last week in the foul-smelling hallway of a New York City courthouse, clutching her purse in one hand and a bulging green file in the other. She was immaculately dressed and polite, in contrast to most of the people she had dealt with that day. When her husband of 25 years asked for a divorce in 1998, Wajdenfeld hired a lawyer. But "he didn't do nothing," she says in a clipped Polish accent. So in January, she made a calculation that more and more Americans are making: she could do better representing herself. Though Wajdenfeld...
...Longtime Cambridge political fixture and Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 announces that he will retire in January 2000 following a 36-year career on the School Committee and the City Council. During his career, Duehay dealt with a variety of problems including racial unrest and student protest in the 1960s and the housing tumult following the 1994 end to rent control...
Kotowski says he is personally aware of only one complaint about a guard, and says it has been dealt with to his satisfaction...