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Lobbying at the federal level is an acquired taste even for people in proximity to the capital. Like the rest of the tech community, Washington-area execs long kept politics and government at arm's length, believing that all they needed to do was to make profits and create jobs and the lawmakers would leave them alone. But they have come to understand that they ignore Washington at their peril. The Justice Department's antitrust suit against Microsoft in 1998 scared all tech companies smart, and the firms closest to the seat of power are on their way to becoming...
...court rejected the government's argument that the oncomouse is not an invention because scientists do not have control over some of its features, like tail length and eye color, arguing that those characteristics are irrelevant to the animal's usefulness and novelty...
...most radicalized campuses of the late 1960s, the University of Wisconsin, he took no part in the campus protests against the Vietnam War. Like George W., who came to a tumultuous Yale two years after Cheney left, he held the revolution at arm's length...
...will not be arrested without showing that I don't believe I should be arrested," she said, and pointed down to a length of wire coiled around the pole she held...
...post-Austin Powers era, where behind every evil force about to take over the world there stands a Mr. Bigglesworth and even, perhaps, a Mini-Me, taking the Soviet espionage genre seriously involves a willful suspension of disbelief on par with that required to enjoy a full-length Disney animated feature...