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Microsoft just can't seem to get a break in Europe. After a U.S. judge gave Bill Gates a victory by approving his company's settlement with the Justice Department, E.U. regulators last week argued that their own case against the software giant was significantly different and vowed to press ahead. That may be based on pride as much as uniqueness: the U.S. decision addresses one core E.U. issue by forcing Microsoft to share information to make Windows work with competing server software, while the other key issue - bundling extra programs into Windows - has been remanded to an appeals court...
Harvard and its two co-defendants are in settlement talks with a Maine mutual fund company that alleges in its own suit that it too was defrauded by the leaders of a Harvard-run economic advising program in Russia...
That the University is willing to discuss settlement goes against its earlier public posturing...
...settlement in the Forum case would not impact the government’s case—which is proceeding toward trial...
...bona fides in the Arab world are judged through the prism of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the U.S. has lately been sending State Department emissaries to the region touting what it calls a "road map" to peace and Palestinian statehood via a Palestinian crackdown on terrorism, an Israeli settlement freeze and other familiar prescriptions. Washington's proposals have been received with all due politesse, but nobody in the region is taking them seriously as any kind of guide to action in the near term. The domestic politics of both Israel and the Palestinians, right now, holds little prospect for movement...