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When that happens--and some observers say the free-for-all will begin in earnest when Congress returns in January--the anti-Microsoft forces will come packing awfully hefty checkbooks. Even in the digital age, Washington is a Middle Eastern bazaar. The going is about to get tough, and it may be time for Bill Gates to go shopping...
This time the bombers came well dressed, one in a dark suit, one in a light suit. A car dropped them off just outside Jerusalem's main food market, and they walked into the crowded center of the bazaar, carrying attache cases. At 1:10 p.m., positioned 100 ft. apart and apparently in eye contact, one of them, standing in a covered lane, detonated a lethal parcel containing about 20 lbs. of TNT packed with rusty screws and nails. Three seconds later, the second man exploded his suitcase bomb along an open street crammed with lunchtime shoppers. "This is madness...
...Diana (with whom he spoke once a week), from Madonna to Lisa Marie Presley. A number of years ago he happily accepted a lunch invitation from Mike Tyson, a longtime Versace fan. At his dinner parties he often liked to have fun with seating arrangements, once placing Harper's Bazaar editor Liz Tilberis next to a Milanese soccer goalie...
...publicity they were meant to garner. As a result, he hastened the transformation of fashion from a rarefied interest of the elite into a object of bottomless mass-cultural fascination. Remember, there weren't always MTV style awards or accountants who can identify the faces in Harper's Bazaar or makeup artists with best-selling coffee-table books. "Versace," notes Vogue's European editor-at-large Hamish Bowles, "moved fashion into the public domain in the most strident...
...cancel a major rally and using a technicality to close down Khatami's election headquarters in the last week of campaigning. Nateq-Noori was the candidate of a militant Islamic front combining the conservative mullahs of the holy city of Qum and the middle-class traders of the Tehran bazaar. A former Khomeini bodyguard, he had become a top police official, then head of the conservative-controlled National Assembly. His campaign slogan was an oath of absolute loyalty to the mullahs' supreme rule...