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Growing up in the Tibetan refugee settlement of Mundgod in southern India, Ngawang Choephel was enthralled by the music of the land he had left behind. He had fled in 1968, when his mother Sonam Dekyi carried the two-year-old Choephel on her back through the Himalayas to India, and he found that traditional music was just about the only link he had to home. As a teen, he made a dranyan (a six-stringed lute) from a gourd and fishing line and taught himself to play. In 1992, after graduating from the Tibetan Institute for Performing Arts...
...conduct remedies”—agreements that force a company to change its practices rather than its structure—have been ineffective at spurring market competition. In 1994, after years of government investigation, Microsoft modified its licensing contract with PC makers under a settlement reached with Justice Department officials. But Microsoft quickly embarked on new efforts to evade the consent degree and to protect its operating system monopoly from offerings by Netscape and Sun, prompting the government’s antitrust suit...
William Neukom, the company’s chief legal officer, will be in Washington this week, in what is reportedly an effort to present the Justice Department with settlement options. The Antitrust Division should remember its charge, and not fold its cards at the critical moment in the case’s development. There is a difference between reasonable concession and abandoning of principles, and the Justice Department cannot afford to get any closer to that line...
RODNEY KING Famed motorist hit with drug charge. A $3.8 mil settlement is a terrible thing to waste...
...Jala Incursion Israeli troops and tanks pulled back from the Palestinian-administered town of Beit Jala after a two-day occupation that drew sharp international criticism. The European Union said it brokered the withdrawal in return for a commitment by Palestinians to stop gunmen firing at the nearby Jewish settlement of Gilo. But Israel was on alert for possible attacks to avenge the killing earlier in the week of Abu Ali Mustafa, the highest-ranking victim of Israel's assassination policy since the current intifadeh began...