While the courtroom laughter was played high in most accounts, with News.com reporting that even Microsoft's lawyers were chuckling at the videotaped cat-and-mouse game, ZD's court story surprisingly recounted Gates's testimony without recounting the apparent courtroom disbelief.
Can the biggest private foundation in the world, now channelling Mr Buffett's fortune as well as Mr Gates's, really be so impotent?
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One small proviso: the advantages of keeping your distance will come only if your hunches are as good as Mr Buffett's, your software as dominant as Mr Gates's or your films as popular as Mr Lucas's.
BBC's poor cousin is now hanging on to Bill Gates's coat-tails.
The notion that cars must form the centre of every industrial economy looks pretty quaint given that the combined market value of Detroit's Big Three is dwarfed by that of Bill Gates's Microsoft.
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Well, first, consider whether Robert Gates's arrival is really a repudiation of the so-called neoconservative vision.
Which is, in a sense, what the police are saying in professor Gates's case.
Gates's endorsement was the topper to a relatively successful two weeks for the government's IT hopes.
But if Gates's words to Newsweek are any indication, all of this may be about to change.
Mr. Gates's flagship project is the Washington Park Arts Incubator, scheduled to open this fall on Chicago's South Side.
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Bill Gates's company makes money by selling intellectual property, jealously guarding its programs' source code and fighting software piracy.
Goldberg centered on then-secretary of defense Robert Gates's angry statement to his colleagues in the wake of Netanyahu's visit.
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Mr. Gates's lesson to managers was more along the lines of innovate, work hard and trust the customer through open systems.
During Mr Gates's last visit to Beijing, his hosts agreed to set up a hotline between the Pentagon and China's defence ministry.
Rumors that Bill Gates's Microsoft would locate in the corridor proved premature.
Gates's successor at the Pentagon will be outgoing CIA Director Leon Panetta.
Mr Gates's focus on poor-country diseases increases the chances of making the breakthroughs in medicine and delivery systems necessary to beating those illnesses.
The 2006 QDR already foresaw that America had to deal with a range of crises, and Mr Gates's review only tinkers with America's military structure.
Mr Gates's membership of the much-heralded Iraq Study Group means that he will have a vested interest in getting the report accepted and acted on.
Their first stop was Germany, specifically Gates's Huguenot House in Kassel.
In contrast, studies of Mr. Gates's leadership style suggest he followed a much more traditional path: He tried to meet the needs of consumers, not create them.
Despite Bill Gates's declaration in 2004 that spam would soon be a thing of the past, it is clearly a vast problem that is not going away.
Mr Gates's biggest advantage lies not so much in his ideology (which has a born bureaucrat's flexibility) but in his status as a newcomer to a floundering administration.
Gates's famous take-no-prisoners attitude is infused throughout the Microsoft culture.
Hollywood moguls Barry Diller and David Geffen dropped out of UCLA and the University of Texas, respectively, while Microsoft's Bill Gates and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg never completed their studies at Harvard.
Large though Mr Gates's bank balance may be, he cannot afford to kit out the United States with broadband networks, and almost certainly has no desire to become a cable mogul.
Currently, it is inconceivable that a European Microsoft would be investigated as openly and as rigorously as Bill Gates's firm has been in America, let alone that its break-up would be considered.
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