Mignini declined to comment about the book or the case until the high court appeal is completed.

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As Mr Auletta waited for the hearing to begin, he wondered not only if the court would bring up Judge Jackson's comment in his book that Bill Gates has a Napoleonic concept of himself but also comments he made about the appeals court.

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"It's too tawdry a book to comment on, " he says.

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There was no immediate comment on Pola's book from her half-siblings, Nastassja and Nikolai, when their representatives were contacted by Reuters news agency.

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The former prime minister has not yet responded to Mr Darling's claims, but on Tuesday refused to comment on other claims attributed to the book that he had a "brutal and volcanic" mood.

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Barclays wouldn't comment other than to confirm it still owns the book.

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Last year, All England Lawn Tennis Club chief executive Ian Ritchie told The Daily Telegraph that officials would "prefer to see less grunting, " a comment which unintentionally conjured up an amusing comic-book-style image: the visible grunt.

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Second, cyberspace turns out to have all kinds of novel spatial properties (see the new book, Cyberspace and Security: A Fundamentally New Approach, by Victor Sheymov, excerpted in this comment for more on this), but three-dimensionality is not among them.

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