Milestones
Ten years ago: The Senate rejected a proposed constitutional amendment barring desecration of the American flag.
Five years ago: Twenty-two people were killed as a terrorist bomb shattered a bus in the heart of Tel Aviv.
One year ago: U.S. lawyers opened their antitrust case against Microsoft. In Miami, the first class-action lawsuit brought by smokers against the tobacco industry went to trial. Jurors later found the nation’s largest cigarette makers and industry groups had produced a defective and deadly product.