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To: QwikSand who wrote (19845)	9/17/1999 11:29:00 PM
From: Pamina	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Ok - I can see that once you get on one of these threads you are kinda hooked. So - who the heck is Twister? Thanks for the welcome here. I really have nothing useful to say about most stocks but I love to read what all you yahoos think. Monday is Yom Kippur and market trading should be thin. But Saturday is really important as PSU will play Miami. These are the really salient points - forget PE's. Pamina

To: QwikSand who wrote (19845)	9/18/1999 8:29:00 AM
From: Michael F. Donadio	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

MSFT secretly financed "Independent Institute" report: nytimes.com September 18, 1999 Microsoft Paid for Ads About Trial Filed at 7:22 a.m. EDT By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- Newspaper advertisements in which a group of California academics backed Microsoft in its antitrust lawsuit were actually paid for by the software giant, acknowledged the company and institute that sponsored the ads. The full page ads taken out by the Independent Institute were printed last June in The New York Times and The Washington Post. They were presented in the form of a letter, signed by 240 academic experts, holding the view that antitrust prosecution was harmful to consumers. Both Greg Shaw, a Microsoft spokesman, and David J. Theroux, president and founder of the institute, acknowledged Friday that the company had paid for the ads, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times reported today. ''We were aware of the letter, and we were pleased to support making that letter visible,'' Shaw said. ''This is a position they endorsed irrespective of who paid for and placed the ad.'' Theroux said the ''implication that Microsoft had any influence is ridiculous.'' At least one economist who signed the letter disagreed. ''I would not have participated if I had known,'' said Simon Hakim, of Temple University. ''It's not right to use people as a vehicle for special interests.'' Institute documents obtained by The New York Times include a bill for the full cost of the ads, and for expenses for travel by Theroux and a colleague to a Washington, D.C., news conference on the day the ads were published. Over the past year, many institutes and lobbying organizations have weighed in with opinions on the antitrust case in the form of advertisements, reports, news conferences or books. Microsoft has employed an elaborate public relations campaign as part of its trial strategy. Internal institute documents show Microsoft has secretly been one of the group's largest benefactors in the last year, The New York Times said. The documents were provide by a computer-industry adversary of Microsoft who refused to be identified further, the newspaper said. The"Independent Institute" seems to be is as independent as a child living on his father's allowance, Michael