David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

to say. Sometimes in court he stumbles
when he has to read something and
comes across a word that he cannot
process in time. So he stops and spells it
out, like a child in a spelling bee. It’s
awkward. It’s more of an eccentricity,
though, than an actual problem. In the
1990s, he headed the prosecution team
accusing Microsoft of antitrust
violations, and during the trial, he kept
referring to “login” as “lojin,” which is
just the kind of mistake a dyslexic
makes. But he was devastating in the
cross-examination of witnesses, because
there was no nuance, no subtle evasion,
no peculiar and telling choice of words
that he would miss—and no stray