Word: processing
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...order to prevail in the appeals process, the Miami relatives and their lawyers have to convince U.S. courts to accept in principle that a six-year-old can apply for asylum against the wishes of his father. "It seems questionable that a court will uphold that principle," says TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen. "It's very difficult for the Miami family to win legally, because they're arguing that the political situation in Cuba makes it wrong to send Elian back even if that is his father's wish, but the family perspective tends to trump the political perspective...
Though Oprah, based in Chicago, is rarely seen in the O offices, she intervened often in the editing process, peppering King with ideas, demanding changes when she found some helpful hint too condescendingly obvious, and insisting that the table of contents come at the very beginning of the magazine instead of after pages and pages of advertising, as in most glossy monthlies. Oprah tried on every fashion item featured in the magazine's "O List," according to King. "She won't recommend something she hasn't tried herself," says King. "There's one list in which you have...
...gadfly--a public activist infamous for his dated suits and worn shoes, lampooned for wanting to put airbags on tricycles. Now Nader is a politician. After two half-hearted campaigns for President, he is running hard. Why? The big money in politics, he says, is stymieing the process. "We cannot get through today what we remotely got through in the '60s and '70s," Nader declares. He'll almost certainly get the Green Party nod. His strongest rival is Jello Biafra, once lead singer of the Dead Kennedys...
...Earlier this month, when Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson found that Microsoft had abused its monopoly power, the firm vowed to appeal - an apparent attempt, at least in part, to quell investor concerns over the future of the firm. The appeals process is expected to drag on for at least two years, an eternity in tech time. But on news of the proposed remedy, investor concerns appear to be in full force once again. Before 10 a.m. on Monday, Microsoft had dropped more than 12 dollars per share to $66.63. After steady gainst throughout the second half of last week...
...into the market, someone caused quite a panic on Wall Street Monday by leaking the Justice Department's proposed remedy in the Microsoft antitrust trial to the press this weekend. The reported remedy introduces a new wrinkle to the whole matter: that Microsoft be strictly controlled during the appeals process. This follows talk that any remedy handed down by the court after the years it will take to sort our the appeals would be made moot by advances in technology. According to reports in three major newspapers Monday morning, the Justice Department and 19 states filing the antitrust suit against...