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However, breaking up the company might not solve the problem if one branch retained the operating system monopoly. Microsoft has already expressed interest in incorporating additional functionality, such as speech recognition, into its operating system, and other companies would still be at risk. Licensing Windows to multiple independent providers, while encouraging creative additions to the operating system by many companies, raises the danger of a "version fork" and the creation of mutually incompatible operating systems. Despite these risks, a strong structural remedy seems more appropriate to the offense and more likely to restrain anticompetitive action by Microsoft in the future...
Although critics of the ruling have argued that allowing TFs to unionize would damage their working relationship with their professors, Ascherman Professor of Economics Richard B. Freeman, an expert on labor relations, said he did not think that would present a problem...
...those of you who have not been paying close attention, officers of the New York Police Department (NYPD) have fatally shot and killed three unarmed black men in this past month. For the morally sane, the appropriate emotional reaction is not a problem. Sadness and regret should come to mind. If you were in any way responsible, remorse should quickly follow. Three men who presented no deadly threat lost their lives. You would think the police commissioner would say he was sorry. You would think the city's mayor would express sympathy for the victims' families. Since this...
...problem is that New York's esteemed mayor has gone mad. Like a bloodhound let loose in a meat factory, Giuliani has quite simply lost his focus. His deadly attention used to be focused on hardened criminals. Gang members and cocaine dealers suffered in the first years of Giuliani's tenure as Mayor. However, as the jails filled and crime went down, Giuliani was forced to crack down on less obvious criminals. Pornography stores were evicted and a taxi driver strike was broken. These actions, while ethically suspect, were deemed justifiable--after all, who's going to stand...
...measures reflect growing consensus in the gun control lobby that the movement's efforts should be geared toward states rather than the federal government, for both strategic and legal reasons. "The general feeling of people who want control of guns has been to attack it as a national problem," says TIME legal analyst Alain Sanders, who notes that states with larger urban and suburban populations are generally in favor of tighter gun regulation. "Seeing as how Congress is not going to do anything, gun control advocates believe they'll have a better chance at the state level. At the same...