The lawyer said he would display emails and other correspondence that showed Jobs was active in the company's efforts to control e-book prices as Apple was preparing to launch the iPad.

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In the face of impassioned arguments over gun control, the effect of screen violence, and the possible mimicking of comic-book villains any idea of simple fun has been drained away.

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As I wrote in my book, Boeing had a long history of command-and-control leadership where top executives toldl everyone else what to do.

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In addition to more than 500 columns and articles published in a variety of newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and the Los Angeles Times, and major online media, Mr. Milloy is most recently the author of the Amazon.com best-selling book, "Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them" (Regnery 2009).

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The first task, which previous research has shown to deplete self-control, was tediously crossing out all the Es on a page from a statistics book.

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While publishers ended up earning less per book because of the revenue share to e-reader companies, they regained control over their property.

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