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She lost her daughter in a custody battle with an evil, power-mad husband (her own fault, of course--she tried to tell the girl what to say in court).
Many readers find it suspicious that Michael Lewis has stopped filing dispatches from the Microsoft antitrust trial, and they do not accept our explanation that he got bored, found the hard wooden seats nightmarishly uncomfortable (especially combined with the judge's power-mad restrictions on leaving to go to the bathroom), felt he had said most of what he wanted to say, has a pressing book deadline, and so on.
But the big villain is a power-mad government whose only agenda seems to be hunting down and killing smart people.
"It managed to prefigure the power-mad 80's," says the New York Times ' Janet Maslin, comparing Darth Vader to merger-and-acquisitions-mad corporate titans.