June 14, 2003

Brooklyn District Attorney's office will investigate decision by Justice Gerard H Rosenberg to strike down revisions that City Council made to term limits law, citing unusual handling of case, but no criminal actions yet (M)

IBM announces it will fight suit brought by SCO Group over allegations that IBM infringed SCO license by copying code from Unix operating system to freely-distributed Linux system; SCO, which has attempted to build its own Linux-based business, has shifted strategy to focus on aggressively enforcing its licensing rights to Unix, acquired in 1995 from Novell; thus far SCO has signed licensing agreements with two companies, one of which is Microsoft (M)

Democratic Congressional leaders and presidential candidates struggle with issue of how strongly to challenge Pres Bush about failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; some are hoping it can be turned into powerful political issue while others fear it could backfire, given strong public support for Bush's war policies, public's apparent indifference and prospect that weapons could still surface; after Republicans announce they will hold closed-door hearings on weapons issue, Sen Bob Graham accuses adminstration of 'shameful and dangerous display of secrecy' and suggests it manipulated intelligence; other prominent Democrats join in criticism of intelligence, while presidential hopefuls Sens John Kerry, Joseph Lieberman and John Edwards strike more cautious tone, as polls indicate public remains supportive of war (L)

New software developed by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu identifies jargon in business communications written in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint; software, which is free, is aimed at consultants and others who obfuscate corporate filings and statements with pretentious, largely-meaningless phrases such as 'value-driven' and 'mission-critical' (M)

New York Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens wins his 300th game at Yankee Stadium in 5-2 defeat of St Louis Cardinals; also records 4,000th strikeout, and cements his status as one of baseball's greatest pitchers; career highlights; Clemens had made three previous starts with chance to notch 300th victory; photos (L)