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...Show and The Love Boat, while the fast-growing Game Show Network revives the leisure-suited splendor of Match Game and Tattle Tales. Thanks to cable's ravenous maw for content, more diverse and complex shows are entering the rerun canon. Cartoon Network (which, like TIME, is owned by AOL Time Warner) not only spun off the Boomerang channel of old cartoons for nostalgic adults (Get it? Boomerang?) but also inspired a heated was-Bugs-Bunny-racist debate last month when it excised anti-Japanese World War II-era shorts from a Bugs marathon. One-season wonders like...
...company that could be first in line: AOL Time Warner, the parent company of TIME. In recent talks about renewing AOL's spot on Windows XP, Microsoft sought indemnity from future antitrust claims. AOL refused, and the deal died. AOL might sue, claiming that Netscape, the Internet browser it now owns, was harmed by Microsoft's monopolistic behavior. Estimates of potential damage are in the billions of dollars. Other companies that could sue: Microsoft-loathing Sun Microsystems, RealNetworks and Oracle...
Likewise, it's critical to us all that AOL keep the legal pressure on Microsoft. Redmond is ruthless. Anyone who thinks that what Microsoft did to Netscape won't happen again hasn't been paying attention. Microsoft's Messenger will play a critical role in a suite of personalized consumer services called HailStorm that people will want to use in Windows XP. That's bad news for AOL, which will continue its fight. And good news...
...Even now, Becker is the biggest name in Germany, eclipsing singers and chancellors. In the 20 months that he has been spokesman for AOL Germany, the public's awareness of the brand has more than doubled, and his signature line, "Ich bin drin!" (I'm in!), has become the country's catchall phrase for going online. "I don't know if a Michael Jordan comparison is strong enough," says AOL Germany marketing director Phillipp Schindler. "Boris' sympathy levels are outstanding. He is the German superstar...
...BECKER HAS DONE WELL WITH HIS THREE MERCEDES DEALERSHIPS outside Berlin and by lending his name to AOL, DaimlerChrysler, Völkl rackets and the rtl television network. But his venture online was less successful. The German sports site Sportgate, of which Becker owned 60%, shut down two weeks ago, just three months after launch, with insiders blaming disagreements among the shareholders. In 1999, Becker's stint as Germany's Davis Cup manager also ended in failure, largely because he couldn't get along with one of the country's leading players, Nicolas Kiefer. That same year Becker...