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THE BATTALION
Friday, March 21,
Microsoft division not imminen
ay, March 24,
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Jus
tice Department appears to be retreat
ing from demands in secret negotia
tions to break up the Microsoft Corp.,
a concession that would dramatically
improve chances for settling the land
mark antitrust case.
Microsoft has indicated it will not
accept any settlement that divides the
company, and U.S.
Assistant Attorney
General Joel I. Klein
believes such a pun
ishment may not be
necessary to ade
quately restrain what
the trial judge char
acter a breakup
while anticipating a
strongly favorable ruling from U.S. Dis
trict Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson in
the coming weeks. It also puts Justice’s
stance at odds with some state attorneys
general, who believe that only the
harshest punishment is appropriate.
New York’s attorney general, Eliot
Spitzer, on Thursday praised Klein’s
handling of the antitrust trial but ac
knowledged that past cooperation be
tween states and Justice “doesn’t mean
we’re going to agree on every piece,
every remedy.”
Spitzer, who declined to comment on
settlement talks, described a “healthy dy
namic” among the 19 states and Justice
debating punishments.
Antitrust experts offered several ex
planations why Justice now may be in
clined to accept lesser punishment than
a breakup as part of a settlement, even
though the trial judge strongly has hint
ed he will rule that Microsoft violated
antitrust laws.
Punishment worked out under set
tlement could apply immediately to
Microsoft — even before the next elec
tion — without the uncertainty over
the outcome of lengthy appeals. Gov
ernment lawyers also could negotiate a
punishment broadly enough they
would apply to controversial practices
that were not part of the current trial,
such as Microsoft’s dominance in In
ternet “server” software and in the
market for word processors and
spreadsheets.
“What Justice has to balance is the
benefits in the short run of having a set
tlement'that might apply arguably to
some things more long term that haven’t
been litigated, against the more certain
relief of a structural divestiture that Mi
crosoft would oppose,” said Glenn B.
Manishin, an antitrust lawyer who advo
cates breaking up Microsoft.
The Justice Department also faces an
apparent dearth of support among the
public and the technology industry to
break up Microsoft, as well as active de
bate among some attorneys general on
their best course.
Jackson bluntly told government
lawyers in November that he would
“not like to have to deal with divergent
points of view” on proposed punish
ments. Ohio’s Betty Montgomery, for
example, said earlier that lawyers
should seek prohibitions on Microsoft’s
conduct, not a breakup.
Microsoft has indicated it would
never agree to any settlement that in
cluded a breakup; the company’s chief
executive, Steve Ballmer, i
proposals “reckless and irresponi
The first surprise suggestions!
settlement might be possiblecameaj
er this month after prominent fia
analysts met privately with 1
new financial officer.
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lieved “there was a near-termoppi
ty to have this settled, some I
being given that they wouldn't have!
change in culture or structure."
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tinned acrimony. Sounding far fromjl
cated, Klein told a Senate subcon]
this week that any remedy “o
commensurate” with Microsoft';;
gressive business practices.
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ter to thousands of subscribers Weds
day harshly critical ofthegovenmai
described as “unseemly at best” Justo
efforts to persuade industry leadeis
support a breakup. It also deni
breakup plans as “an extreme and®
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1980s. Here is a look at the average
prices for oil and gas in 1999 dollars.
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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A S75 million NASA
spacecraft designed to study solar fiares was heavily
damaged when engineers mistakenly shook it 10 times
harder than intended during a preflight test.
The shaking cracked at least two of four solar panels
on the High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager, and
tests were planned to find internal damage. Launch,
which had been scheduled for July, will be pushed back
at least to January.
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ments were damaged. HESSI’s engineers were cot
dent that the spacecraft can be saved, said Mark He
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It’s the latest embarrass
ment for the space agency
and Jet Propulsion Labora
tory, which last year lost
two high-profile missions
to Mars. The cause of the
mishap was still under in
vestigation, JPL spokes
woman Mary Beth Murrill
said Thursday.
JPL engineers were
performing tests on a
shake table Tuesday to
ensure the probe could
"It continued to function
even through the test. We
know there are structural
and other elements of the
satellite that are still
working."
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to 20 times the force of gravity for about 200 mil
liseconds.
“The folks who were involved in the test are mysti
fied at this point,” said Lany Dumas, JPL’s deputy di
rector. “There’s no obvious reason that’s presented itself
(for the unexpected shaking).”
units were not translated into metric. Polar Lander's re«
board is expected to make its findings public next wa
HESSI’s mishap disappointed dozens ofscieM
who have been working on the project for more
two years.
The satellite was being tested at JPL because of
lab’s proximity to Gilbert, Ariz.-based SpectrumAsi
where it was built, and the University of CalifoS
12 year-old boy holds classroom hostage
LISBON, Ohio (AP)—A sixth-grader pulled a gun in
his classroom Thursday morning but a teacher persuaded
him to drop the weapon, the school superintendent said.
No one was hurt and the 12-year-old boy was taken
into custody. He told authorities that his mother is in jail
and he wanted to join her, Superintendent Anthony
Krukowski said.
The boy came into his McKinley Elementary School
classroom at about 9 a.m., pointed a gun at the floor and
told his classmates and teacher Dan Kemats to get down,
Krukowski said.
A pupil in the hallway overheard the exchange and
summoned another teacher, Linda Robb, who persuaded
the boy to give up the gun, Krukowski said. The whole
thing was over in less than five minutes, he said.
Authorities didn’t immediately say if the gun was
loaded. The boy apparently got it from home and kept it in
his pocket, Krukowski said.
The school was closed for the day. It will not have class
es Friday but will be open for students who want to come
in for counseling.
Krukowski said he wasn’t very familiar with the boy
and was unaware of any behavior problems. “As far as I
am aware of, there was nothing substantial,” he said.
Campaigning at a Cincinnati elementary school. Vice
President Al Gore said the incident in Lisbon “once again
raises the question that has confronted us so often in the
past year or two or three. That is, how can we all come to
gether to give our children better values?... Isn’t it time for
all of us to come together across party lines to require
mandatory child-safety trigger locks and other common-
sense measures to deal with this problem?”
The school has about 650 students from kindergarten
through sixth grade. The district has about 1,350 students.
Lisbon is about 25 miles south of Youngstown, near the
Ohio-West Virginia-Pennsylvania lines.
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