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...direst threat to Windows hegemony may be Java, the Web-minded programming language created at Sun Microsystems in the early '90s. Java's great strength is its "portability"; in a Java-centric future, developers could write programs not for one OS at a time but for the Java Virtual Machine, the software that could run numerous next-wave computers: PCs, smart cell phones, personal digital assistants, stripped-down network computers and so on. "What should Apple do next?" asks Sun CEO and Java evangelist Scott McNealy. "Put 100% energy behind Java. Innovate, compete and add value. That's so obvious...
...seen the Great Books list and I don't like it because people whine enough about diversity on campus, and this would just make it worse, and this gives a very Western-centric view," says Merrick Tien...
...will be held in New York City June 7-8, still boasts a formidable and largely male lineup. But the most anticipated performer is probably going to be a woman: Alanis Morissette. On June 14-15, New York will also play host to the Guinness Fleadh Festival, an Irish-centric event with over 60 acts, headlined by Sinead O'Connor, who has a terrific new mini-album of six songs called Gospel Oak--and a happier outlook on life. Predicts O'Connor: "[The Fleadh] will be the best fun I've had in years." You go, girl...
...sequel that opens next week; Amistad, the true story of a slave revolt, expected at year's end; and Saving Private Ryan, a World War II saga starring Tom Hanks. Ever since Jaws in 1975, Spielberg has led the way for mainstream movies, with their kinetic savvy and kid-centric sentiment. To an extent, they are what he has been. But what is he now? Has Peter Pan grown...
...would never doubt my old buddy. But just to be certain we were dealing with a national phenomenon here and not a Beaverton-centric statistical anomaly, I checked with Raoul Felder, one of New York's better-known divorce lawyers (he handled the off-line antinuptials of Robin Givens as well as those of the ex-missuses of Frank Gifford, David Susskind and Carl Sagan). "I have a number of those things where they meet on the Net and talk dirty and arrange rendezvous," confirms Felder. In fact, he says, his firm has handled "50 or so. Easily...