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They hired brilliant programmers straight out of school. Jack's $1,500-a-month Social Security check covered living expenses for three adults and two children, complete with a cook and driver. Working 12-hour days, they hunted for investors and finally found their angel, an oil company CEO, who put up $600,000 and brought in other investors. After 18 months in India, VirtuosoWorks, Indian staff and all, moved to Greensboro. NOTION, launched last spring, according to Sonic Control magazine, "has the potential to become the first true mass-market music software...
...confidence that Stanley didn't want anything. He had no ulterior motives and agendas, and that's something which is very rare, as you see. You see how much he's different from everybody else, including [March on Washington coordinator] Bayard Rustin and lots of other people who are brilliant, brilliant people, but they all have their own angles, and also Stanley criticized King unvarnished and straight-on as opposed to in great rhetorical sermons, and that sort of thing. He would tell him, you know, Martin, I think you're making a profound error here. Nobody else said things...
...Alas, ID isn't going away. The Kansas school board recently endorsed new educational standards that downplay evolution, and new assaults on Darwin's brilliant and unsettling idea are sure to continue. Meanwhile, there are still gaps in Einstein's theory of relativity and the germ theory of disease and the theory of plate tectonics. However, none of these contradict the sacred text of any religion-and so no school board is likely to be looking for some way to counter them...
...away from the most controversial issues, the Pope has shown an ability to preach eloquently about the core issues of modern existence - good and evil, charity and consumerism, and the slippery slope of instantaneous self-fulfillment. Ratzinger, says a top aide to a progressive European Cardinal, "has a brilliant way of summing up a concept in a single sentence. He can clean off the window of modern history, and give you a clear vision of what's wrong with our society." The new Pope's mission is the same one that has driven him since he was ordained...
...Another masterpiece released in teasing installments, the first half of David B.'s phantasmagorical memoir about growing up with an epileptic brother was brilliant enough to merit the top spot in TIME's top comix list of 2002. Finally partnered with the second half as a complete graphic novel, readers can at last enjoy the full scope of Epileptic's remarkable meditation on the nature of illness, the impact of history on the present, and the need to create fantasies and art. David B. seems to have total recall of what it was like growing up with a stigmatized brother...