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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, February 3, 1999
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Web abortionist list ruled death threat
The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. — A federal jury ruled yesterday that a Web site and "wanted" posters listing abortion doctors' names and addresses amounted to death threats, ordering the site's authors to pay damages of more than $100 million.
Striking a blow to militant online tactics in the fight against abortion, the verdict could redefine what is considered constitutionally protected political speech. The anti-abortion materials contained no explicit threats of violence, only veiled messages.
"The jury saw the posters for what they are — a hit list for terrorists," said Gloria Feldt, the president of Planned Parenthood, the main plaintiff in
Defendants had said they would not pay any damages, no matter what the verdict.
the case. "Whether these threats are posted on trees or on the Internet, their intent and impact is the same."
One of the defendants, Catherine Ramey, sobbed as the verdict came in, after 4 1/2 days of deliberations.
"This is a moral and constitutional outrage," Ramex said afterward.
She had testified that she would not as much as offer a tissue to an abortion provider if he or she
She criticized the key ruling by the judge, which defined threat as by a "reasonable person," rather than as something that made lawless action "imminent."
At issue was the "The Nuremberg Files" Web site, which lists hundreds of "baby butchers" and invites readers to send in such personal details as their home addresses, license plate numbers and even the names of their children. The similar Wild West-style posters offered a $5,000 reward for information about the "Deadly Dozen" doctors branded "Gully of Crimes Against Humanity."
was shot.
Microsoft accused of falsifying evidence
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Three times, doctors whose names appeared on the list were killed, most recently last October when Dr. Barnett Slepian was gunned down by sniper fire in his home outside Buffalo, N.Y. His name on the Web site was promptly crossed through.
WASHINGTON — In a dramatic courtroom confrontation, the government yesterday accused Microsoft Corp. of falsifying a video demonstration aimed at showing severe performance problems caused by government attempts to modify its popular Windows 98 software.
"I believe, from what I've seen here is, they filmed the wrong system," said James Allchin, a senior vice president and top computer scientist at Microsoft. He later added, "I'm not."
sure they would do anything like that" to mislead the judge.
Justice Department lawyer David
Justice Depart.
Boies stopped the video demonstration in mid-frame to show a subtle inconsistency: a software title bar that suddenly changes in the
middle of the test. The video had been played in court Monday.
Boies charged — and Allichn
acknowledged — the change indicated that the test actually was completed using a version of Windows unaffected by the government's modifications.
"In this particular case, I do not think the (government) program had been run," Allchin said. But he insisted that performance problems exist saying, "I personally tested this, and I know the problem exists."
Boles appeared jubilant as he pressed onward, "How in the world could your people have run this program?"
of Princeton University testified previously for the government that he was able to disable Microsoft's Internet software included within Windows.
Computer scientist Edward Felten
Allchin said the government's efforts slowed some functions and prevented others from running at all.
The government says Microsoft's design forces consumers who use Windows also to use its browser, discouraging them from using popular rival software from Netscape Communications Corp.
Clinton proposes school repair plan
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WASHINGTON—With one-third of America's schools in urgent need of repair, the Clinton administration wants to raise nearly $25 billion for renovations through tax credits for bonds.
The Republicans who run Congress support the idea in general, but they say too much of President Clinton's plan targets innermy schools. The GOP wants more spent in growing suburbs and neglected rural areas.
There is little question about the need. The American Society of Civil Engineers last year gave public schools an 'F' in a survey of the nation's greatest infrastructure problems.
That report found that a third of all elementary and secondary schools need some repair, with 14 million children attending class in substandard buildings.
Some recent examples: A high school track team in suburban Burnside, Ill., held practices at a prison with better facilities. At some New York City schools, urinals were hidden behind plywood so bathrooms could become classrooms.
The report estimated that renovation of America's schools would cost $112 billion, with another $60 billion needed to provide space for an expected 3 million new students for the next 10 years.
Rather than asking Congress for sharp increases in direct spending, something the GOP is reluctant to do. Clinton proposed Monday in his fiscal 2000 budget the creation of tax credits aimed at spurring investors to buy bonds that would raise almost $25 billion during two years for school repair and modernization.
Total cost of the tax credits is pegged at $3.7 billion during five years.
Clinton told the National School Boards Association in a speech Monday that the credit would help provide money to fix up 5,000 schools.
Half of the money would be set aside for up to 125 school districts with the most low-income students. The other half would be divived among the states or state officials to spend as they see fit.
Another $400 million would be set aside for certain needy Native American schools.
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