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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...
...Chicago. Bob Fosse's cynical 1975 musical about crime and celebrity in the pre-O.J. era was rediscovered in a sleek, spare and smashing Broadway revival. Ann Reinking, who stars as 1920s murderer Roxie Hart, choreographed the show in Fosse's slithery style, which is a glorious reminder of a whole lost vocabulary of Broadway dance. And Bebe Neuwirth, a tarty treat as Roxie's jailhouse rival, proves she has mastered the grammar...
DIED. JOSEPH QUINLAN, 71, pioneer of the right-to-die movement who led a successful legal crusade to allow his adopted daughter Karen Ann Quinlan to "die with dignity" after she slipped into a coma in 1975; of cancer; in Wantage, New Jersey...