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...biggest part of the problem is that our imitation receives public recognition through the institution's titles and awards. We imitate those who have come before us, then receive recognition for successful imitation, and finally get elevated to a position in which we can publicly recognize others for successful imitation. And because all of our ideas were imitative in the first place, mediocrity ends up begetting mediocrity. The mediocre get recognized, because they do not challenge the homogeneity of the institution, and they eventually accumulate enough awards and titles so that they are in positions from which they can legitimatize...
...BUCK & TIM MCCARVER Heard calling ball game in the background of the Tripp tapes, scoring biggest audience ever...
Java, the universal programming language owned by Sun Microsystems, has long been Microsoft's biggest bugaboo. Gates said in a private e-mail that its potential to make Microsoft obsolete "scares the hell out of me." If Java should capture the hearts and minds of programmers, computers could one day run without the need for an expensive operating system like Windows. To head off that threat, Microsoft licensed Java from Sun in 1995 and used it to create its own "polluted"--or incompatible--version, which discouraged software developers from using the original Sun program. Sun cried breach of contract...
...YORK: They've already bought up Random House, Chrysler and even Rolls Royce this year. And now the world's biggest bank is no longer American or Swiss but German, following the announcement Monday that Deutsche Bank AG would officially gobble up BankersTrust for $10.1 billion. Is Germany trying to take over the world? TIME Brussels bureau chief James Graff says the country still has a lot of catching...
...Ickes decision is Reno's murkiest -- and therefore biggest -- in a while. Any investigator she appoints will quickly head, with cameras rolling and Republicans crowing, to Clinton and Gore. By delaying, Reno may be hoping the Starr-tainted independent counsel statute will be quietly discarded when it comes up for renewal this winter. In that case, Reno could pick Al Gore's poison instead of leaving the three-judge panel that chose Starr to work its magic again. With even Reno's own staff pulling her in different directions these days, fear of a sequel -- and consequently, the need...