Microsoft underwent its Internet epiphany and successfully clobbered Netscape, grabbing the lead in the browser market, albeit at the cost of settinginmotion the biggest antitrust action for a generation.
In response to past mistakes and as a result of hubristic political calculation, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is settinginmotion forces that promise to lead inexorably to grief for his nation.
Mr. Obama had until midnight Friday to notify federal agencies that he had authorized the sequester to begin, settinginmotion a chain of federal, state, and local decisions that will likely play out for months.