The other leading scenario is to slice Microsoft into several "Baby Bills": mirror-image companies that all have equal rights to Windows.

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MCI's brand, marketing and billing systems with its burgeoning local-telephone operations, it might be able to take a big slice of business away from the Baby Bells.

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But in the world of big-and small-money map theft, it's more like taking candy from a baby--or in this case, a library: Simply walk in, slice 'em out of a book and walk out.

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