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...witness was about to spill her guts, Kendall and Seligman turned up at the federal courthouse, asking for an extension on the Starr subpoena. Protective of the 23 citizens who have already spent a half-year in a closed, dark room, Judge Norma Holloway Johnson refused the lawyers' request, saying if Clinton can take vacation, he can talk to the grand jury. And at the end of the day, there were widespread leaks throughout the city that Monica had offered Starr examples of hypothetical statements in which Clinton had tried to guide her comments in the Paula Jones case...
Which is it now -- the cool, smart Microsoft or the arrogant, petulant one? We'll find out Monday, when the software giant will seek a summary judgment to have all charges against it dismissed, and will request its trial be delayed until such a judgment is considered. Following a hearing today, the company said that evidence uncovered in discovery will rebut each of the five key points the DOJ and the states must prove to make their case...
...strong evidence -- summary judgments are rare in matters as complex as antitrust cases, and Microsoft risks losing face if its attempts fall too far short of plausibility. Steve Houck, an antitrust enforcer for New York State, which is leading the charge, said it is "highly unlikely" that Microsoft's request will be granted. But Microsoft head counsel William Neukom contends that the appeals court decision recognizing Windows 95 as being integrated with Internet Explorer would prove fatal to a successful prosecution of his company...
...irony, says Hillenbrand, is that the request comes from Blair's Labor Party government -- during its years in opposition, the party had consistently promised to repeal the Official Secrets...
...your writer reduced to a bare minimum. I played an important role in Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 March on Washington as the leader and chief organizer of the scores of actors who attended. Some months earlier, as president of the Screen Actors Guild, at Dr. King's request, I persuaded the leadership of one of the technical unions (IATSE) to meet with him, after explaining that IATSE not only barred blacks from membership but also accepted only the sons of its members into the union. I merely knocked on the door. Dr. King persuaded or shamed IATSE into...