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...week run-up in which shares of Philip Morris, the No. 1 tobacco company, jumped 9%, reaching a new high on Thursday, while No. 2 RJR rose 14%. Tobacco stocks have sold at a discount, compared with other packaged-goods company shares, because of the legal uncertainties. Many analysts expect the stocks to keep on chugging once Wall Street can reliably calculate the settlement costs. "As uncertainty is removed, the stocks move up," says Roy Burry, tobacco analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. Investors may be willing to pay up for the newfound safety of predictable, if lower, earnings...
...beyond the computer literate and into the mass market. Two months ago, Gates paid $425 million for WebTV Networks, which makes set-top boxes that allow Internet surfing through TV sets. "Gates is really confirming that the Internet is a medium, not a technology," says Christopher Dixon, a media analyst at Paine Webber. "They have content and need distribution. The key is that Microsoft has accelerated the development of opportunities in line with its prior investments...
...took an event like Gates' investment in Comcast to drive it all home. "In one day there's an epiphany," observes the FCC chairman, Reed Hundt. Gates is the premier techno-futurist of our time. "He's saying what's past is past--this is the future," notes media analyst John Reidy at Smith Barney. Some cable executives may now enjoy vindication for their expensive strategies, and investors may reap the rewards for their patience--although cable stocks have been so horrible that they'll have to shoot much higher to make up for lost time. Tele-Communications...
...diplomat and economics professor who has promised to change much of the President's economic policy. Chirac, 64, is an instinctive political operator who is determined to trim France's huge welfare state. But they are likely to try to get along. "Neither man seeks a fight," says political analyst Pascal Perrineau. "Chirac doesn't have the means. He's a naked king...
...instruction. While a few of the featured programs are booked up for 1997, all promise to inspire. (The subscribed programs' sponsors may have other offerings, and there's always next summer.) We've invited a variety of notables to share their memories of seminal childhood summers--and asked education analyst John E. Chubb to reconsider the Jeffersonian belief in "the inestimable value of the intellectual pleasures," meaning more school time for kids in summer. Happy vacation...