The final scene in the movie GLADIATOR did not end with Maximus riding victoriously into Rome as a triumphant General.

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The first was the resignation last week of Joel Klein, head of the Justice Department's antitrust division and the man who began the relentless legal pursuit of Microsoft that ended victoriously for the government in June, when Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson called for the company to be broken in two.

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