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...Crack all the jokes you want, and the man smoking a Monte Cristo in the clubhouse yesterday afternoon won't care. For one day at least, this Everyman was perfect...
...late Tuesday that his state would not participate in the upcoming anti-Microsoft free-for-all -- at least not for another few weeks. Morales cited concerned letters from Texas-based computer manufacturers Compaq and Dell -- a sign that Redmond?s write-in campaign may just have opened up a crack in the antitrust facade. Whether that crack will be large enough to ship Windows 98 through is another question...
...radical 1968 polemic on black rage. He joined the Black Panther Party on his release. Two years later, after a gunfight with police in Oakland, he fled to Algeria, Cuba and Paris, living in exile for eight years. Abroad, he embraced fervent anticommunism and evangelical Christianity. Addiction to crack and petty crimes followed his return to the U.S., as did an unsuccessful 1986 bid for a G.O.P. Senate nomination in California...
...pill that conquers impotence? Could there be a product more tailored to the easy-solution-loving, sexually insecure American psyche than this one? The drug, manufactured by Pfizer, went on sale three weeks ago, finally giving talk-show hosts something other than Bill Clinton and Pamela Lee to crack smarmy jokes about...
...more valuable even as the products it enables grow ever less so. "I can go online and find hundreds of checking accounts," says Condon. "Microsoft wants to sell more servers and software, not become a financial institution." But Gates could find the insular banking world a tough nut to crack. Well before MSFDC, the industry launched the software consortium Integrion as its bulwark against territorial infringement. Today Integrion competes with MSFDC even as it licenses Microsoft Money. Microsoft, meanwhile, plays the good citizen, agreeing to abide by the E-commerce software platform that an industry group will release this August...