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Lewis has been less adept in handling the issue of the company's racial identity. Beatrice had topped Black Enterprise magazine's list of African American-owned businesses every year. But Lewis set off a howl in the black community when she completely dropped financial contributions to more than 50 charitable foundations and organizations that her husband had supported, including the N.A.A.C.P., the Abyssinian Baptist Church, the Boys Choir of Harlem, the Urban League and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Only a last-minute call from the Rev. Jesse Jackson's wife Jackie spared Jackson's "rainbow coalition." Lewis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A WOMAN'S TOUCH | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

...moves toward the pavement. The opportunists act like snakes, slithering around the horde to get the best seat on the bus. The slightly pushy edge toward the front of the crowd, hoping to jettison their way through, but at the same time hoping no one notices them. Those less adept at making their way through crowds are left to wait, forlorn, on the steps, watching the shuttle bus fill up and knowing it will not have room for them. And this happens on days when the temperature is 70 degrees and not a drop of precipitation hangs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DAMN SOPHOMORE, BUY A BIKE! | 10/5/1996 | See Source »

When Tom Morello, the spectacularly adept guitarist for the politically minded punk/metal/rap band Rage Against the Machine, is asked to name his favorite guitar player, his answer is intriguingly atypical. He doesn't name Led Zeppelin's much copied Jimmy Page, though he does allow that Page's "mysterious, unsavory" guitar solos made him think, when he was young, that he too could "channel mysterious, unsavory things into suburban Illinois through my guitar." And he doesn't name Jimi Hendrix, though when Morello was a student at Harvard in the mid-1980s (major: social studies), he sported an impressively expansive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: THE GUITAR GOD IS BACK | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

...world domination"). Java is starting from scratch, though, and it could take painfully long for its adherents to produce high-quality applications. Microsoft's Active-X platform, by contrast, supports both Java and the venerable Visual Basic language, at which the company's army of content partners is already adept. Microsoft is starting the browser game late but with a much larger pile of chips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FIRST WEB WAR | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

...neighbor in University Hall, Dingman remembers fondly Epps' spontaneous teas. "He has always been adept at bringing some civility to the office," Dingman says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SINCE 71 Everything's Archie WITH EPPS AT THE HELM | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

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