Word: split
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...prosecutors broke down, a development Klein learned about while working on the weekend in his third-floor office at Justice. That day, Klein polled five members of his core team and learned that none of them had been happy with the mediation talks anyway. Each and every one said, "Split the company in two," and then they all began to work on finalizing the details. "People have been in here night in and night out for the past several weeks," Klein says. "There are still pizza boxes in the hallways." The result was a breakup proposal that Justice then shopped...
...illegally squashed? "It's a gamble," says lawyer and economist Robert Litan, of the Brookings Institution, who once worked for the Justice Department's antitrust division. Litan, who believes the Feds should go even further, joined three fellow economists in a separate brief that called for Microsoft to be split into three competing pieces. The trouble with Klein's remedy, Litan argues, is that where once there was one monopoly there now could be two--the applications and Windows sides--with the possibility that they will find a way to collude...
...which his supposed visual prowess is on display full-force. Taking a page from the James Cameron playbook, Scott meticulously recreates the world of ancient Rome, capturing the most minute details from the bustling streets to the massive Coliseum. And the numerous gladiator battles are quite spectacular, capturing the split-second barbarity through a combination of the realist "skip-frame" technique from Saving Private Ryan and the furious, in-your-face editing style Oliver Stone employed in Any Given Sunday...
Harvard was happy to get the weekend split, even if it meant sitting through its first Ivy loss with the title a win away...
...Substantial Split...