51. Judges no longer hesitate to rule that the government has abused its powers. 52. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, the colorful Reagan-appointed judge who found the company guilty of abusing its power to clobber Netscape and Java, recedes into history. 53. Law enforcement could easily abuse that power, he said. 54. Many of the people targeted for interviews come from countries where the police regularly abuse their powers. 55. Of course prosecutors do sometimes abuse their power and might conceivably have done so in the Rich case. 56. No one thinks that any more than a tiny minority of officers abuse their power by abusing women. 57. On the one hand, anyone with a working memory knows how prone government is to abuse its powers. 58. Probably worst among them was a handful of managers, scattered throughout the company, who abused their power and violated the basic rights of some employees. 59. Prosecutors expect them to support allegations that Dorsey abused the power of his office. 60. Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., who testified before the subcommittee, said the commission had abused its power. |