When 'Choice' Rules

Wednesday, September 13, 2000; Page A35

By George F. Will

Got p----- off and ripped Pamela Lee's ---- off . . .

Fair Use of Antitrust Law

Wednesday, September 13, 2000; Page A35

By Robert E. Litan

In a recent op-ed article in The Post [Sept. 1], Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman Charles T. Munger attacks both the Justice Department for bringing the antitrust case against Microsoft and Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson for his landmark decision agreeing with the department and recommending the company's breakup. In Munger's view, Microsoft is being penalized for having developed a successful product, and if Jackson's ruling is upheld, "virtually every dominant high-tech business in the United States will be forced to retreat from what is standard competitive practice for firms all over the world."

Al Gore's Memory Hole

Wednesday, September 13, 2000; Page A35

By Michael Kelly

Meet Al Gore, the memory hole candidate. He is running for president as the man who wasn't there. You never saw him before today. He yam what he yam, not whatever he used to be. There is a breathtaking quality to the act.

The Wen Ho Lee Case and You

Wednesday, September 13, 2000; Page A35

By Richard Cohen

With the government's case against Wen Ho Lee now in tatters, it's clear that none of us is safe. It's not, mind you, that he knows so many nuclear secrets or that he might, as the government once suspected, offer them to a foreign government. Nothing of the sort. It's rather that his prosecution--a botched, virtually criminal affair--proves that any one of us can spend months in jail on charges that would be thrown out in court.

The Incredible Shrinking Surplus

Wednesday, September 13, 2000; Page A35

By David S. Broder

Thirty-one years after his death, that formidable legislator and frustrated Shakespearean actor, Everett McKinley Dirksen, has received the recognition he is due. The senator from Illinois is the subject of a splendid new political biography, "Everett Dirksen and His Presidents," written by University of Virginia historian Byron C. Hulsey and published by the University Press of Kansas.

Don't Count Peace Out

Tuesday, September 12, 2000; Page A35

By Henry Siegman

Despite a near-universal skepticism about prospects for an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, President Clinton's meetings with Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Chairman Yasser Arafat in New York are likely to lead to a successful outcome before the end of the year.

Bush's Bungle

Tuesday, September 12, 2000; Page A35

By Robert J. Samuelson

The great paradox of this presidential election is that Al Gore is the "candidate of substance," while George W. Bush--the source of the campaign's few fresh ideas--is typecast as a hopeless dunce. For this, Bush is mainly to blame, and it could cost him the election and deprive the nation of a needed debate about how to make government more effective and trustworthy.

High-Tech Cheap Labor

Tuesday, September 12, 2000; Page A35

By Norman Matloff

Computer industry CEOs, claiming a desperate labor shortage, are pressuring Congress to raise the quota for the H-1B work visa, under which tens of thousands of foreign-national computer professionals are brought to work in the United States each year. While the industry denies its motivation is the hiring of cheap foreign labor, the facts say otherwise.

The Great Pretenders

Tuesday, September 12, 2000; Page A35

By Michael Kinsley

Understandably eager to win back the White House now and worry about doctrinal niceties later, the Republicans may have gotten carried away. They have maneuvered themselves into a situation where their leaders--including their presidential candidate--are required to be disingenuous on almost every topic.

Losing Pennsylvania

Tuesday, September 12, 2000; Page A35

By E. J. Dionne Jr.

PHILADELPHIA—If the national polls are so close, why is George W. Bush's campaign scrambling so publicly, readjusting so obviously, announcing the Al Gore-like slogan "Real Plans for Real People" and dumping its debate strategy?