One set of advisers is pushing for more radical "structural" remedies - breaking up Microsoft or forcing it to license the software code for its industry-standard Windows operating system.

Before you choke on your 300-calorie, trans-fat-laden Krispy Kreme, consider: teaching basic nutrition and food preparation is a far less radical remedy than gastric bypass surgery or fast-food lawsuits.

The Yankees have almost never been sellers at the trading deadline, though, and it seems unlikely that Steinbrenner would authorize such a radical remedy.

But the main point here is that such copyright issues can be worked out legally without Judge Charles Pannell Jr.'s radical remedy of prior restraint of publication.

And that requires a radical remedy: chasing political commercials off the air and giving ballot-worthy candidates enough free air time to present themselves to the voters.

The "radical" remedy is that we need to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and along the outer continental shelf.

But critics, including Mr. Gorbachev's archrival, Boris Yeltsin, the President of Russia, prefer a more radical remedy.

Yet critics say the German government and the unions watered down the most radical remedies proposed by the Hartz Commission.

It is easy to accept that eurozone leaders, assaulted by demands from the International Monetary Fund, the US and others to raise their game, could pledge to consider radical remedies.

A spokesman, Mark Murray, added, "There is no basis in the evidence presented in this case for this sort of radical remedy."