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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (21510)	11/17/1998 1:18:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Slate's Coverage of Microsoft Trial Is Proving Difficult nytimes.com That Kinsley, what a nut, went and hired some NYT writer. Those guys have an attitude problem. On Oct. 19, Lewis fired off his first tart dispatch. He wrote that Microsoft's chairman, William H. Gates, looked in his videotaped testimony "as if he had swallowed a bad oyster." He continued, "I doubt any sane and reasonable man could come away from today thinking anything but that Microsoft is guilty of many awful things, and if those things aren't strictly illegal, they should be." Lewis's correspondence seemed mightily unfettered by Microsoft. He referred to a Microsoft lawyer, John Warden, as "a great Hogarthian ball of pink flesh with jowls that ripple over his white, starched shirt." Lewis dismissed the "ineptitude" of the Microsoft lawyers. In his last missive on Nov. 5, he described another Microsoft lawyer as having "the warmth of a corpse." He added, "If the courtroom population were asked to vote who in the chamber was most likely to be a vampire, he'd win." Kinsley joked about the close relationship between Slate and Microsoft in his regular letter from the editor. On Oct. 23, he posted a disclaimer of sorts in his weekly "Read Me" column: "Lewis's views do not reflect those of Slate magazine, its editors, or its advertisers. Especially its editors." Cheers, Dan.