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That wasn't enough for Ellison. Oracle retained Washington-based Investigative Group International to probe the pro-Microsoft spinners in the antitrust battle. I.G.I. hit pay dirt. Oracle says that in the trash of the Independent Institute--which took out pro-Microsoft ads signed by leading academics--investigators found evidence that Microsoft had given the group more than $200,000. (The Independent Institute insists its positions have been unaffected by any support from Microsoft...
...exactly did we do?" he asked at his news conference. "What is our corporate espionage? Our corporate espionage is to find out that Microsoft has hired all these companies, these front organizations, and while they pretend to be independent, publishing all sorts of things that are anti-Oracle and pro-Microsoft...
...shot," he says. "I felt like 'Golly, I was shortchanged.'" He sent out a series of letters explaining his case to conservative advocacy groups and got a bite from Pat Robertson's American Center for Law and Justice. "This is a landmark case," says LeVake's pro-bono attorney, Frank Manion. "For the first time, we have a teacher who is not asking to teach creationism. He simply wants to teach science the way he thinks--and the way a lot of people think--it should be taught, in a more balanced...
...choose or see it taken away." This may sound like campaign hyperbole, but it isn't. Three of the Justices nearing retirement--John Paul Stevens, 80; Sandra Day O'Connor, 70; and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 67 (all have battled cancer)--belong to the court's 6-to-3 pro-choice majority. Anthony M. Kennedy, usually counted among the six, dissented last week because, like many Americans, he finds the partial-birth method particularly abhorrent. Assuming Kennedy settles back into the pro-choice camp, if Stevens and O'Connor step down during a Bush presidency and are replaced by pro-life...
That's still a pretty big if. Some scholars don't think a pro-life court would buck public opinion and ban abortion. (Others are sure it would.) It's possible that Chief Justice William Rehnquist, 75, will step down first--then Bush would need another conservative just to stay even. Bush says abortion isn't a litmus test, but if it is, it would be almost impossible for him to win confirmation of two avowedly pro-life Justices (think Robert Bork). He would instead try to select stealth candidates who haven't expressed views on the issue (think David...