Word: annelies
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...Reported by Ann M. Simmons/Charlotte and Lisa H. Towle/Charleston
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Clinton Administration has proposed that the federal government radically alter its relationship with the District of Columbia by assuming responsibility for tax collection, prisons, courts and roads as part of a multi-million dollar effort to rescue the District from its longstanding financial woes. TIME?s Ann Blackman notes that the idea has energized Washington residents who had begun to think that the District could not manage to solve its intractable problems: ?There?s a chance to make the city into the gem it should be, instead of the dump it is now. The potholes from last...
They broke up in 1987, partly because Winblad, five years older, was more ready for marriage. But they remain close friends. "When I was off on my own thinking about marrying Melinda," Gates says, "I called Ann and asked for her approval." She gave it. "I said she'd be a good match for him because she had intellectual stamina." Even now, Gates has an arrangement with his wife that he and Winblad can keep one vacation tradition alive. Every spring, as they have for more than a decade, Gates spends a long weekend with Winblad at her beach cottage...
Another of Gates' vacation companions is Ann Winblad, the software entrepreneur and venture capitalist he dated during the 1980s. They met in 1984 at a Ben Rosen-Esther Dyson computer conference and started going on "virtual dates" by driving to the same movie at the same time in different cities and discussing it on their cell phones. For a few years she even persuaded him to stop eating meat, an experiment he has since resolutely abandoned...
...photo of a Pentium processor chip. There are smaller pictures of Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci and Henry Ford, though he admits that he has little admiration for the latter. The few personal pictures include one of the original dozen Microsoft employees (most with scruffy beards, except him), one of Ann Winblad on a trip to Germany, and one with Melinda and nine friends on a 1995 vacation to Indonesia. There are no pictures of Jennifer displayed, but he pulls a snapshot out of his desk showing him proudly cradling...