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Oracle's cloak-and-dagger tactics against its despised enemy Microsoft and its allies--not to mention Ellison's brazen defense of them--left the targets fuming. "They've set new standards for hypocrisy and disingenuousness, even for Oracle," says Microsoft spokesman Mark Murray. The Association for Competitive Technology, one of the organizations Oracle snooped, alleged that spies tried to buy its garbage. Other groups are saying that laptops with information relating to Microsoft were swiped from their offices...
...other tracks, Eminem goes after gays with a fervor that would shame Dr. Laura. On one song, he raps: "My words are like a dagger with a jagged edge/That'll stab you in the head whether you're a fag or lez," and then goes on to make fun of the 1997 killing of designer Gianni Versace ("Whoops--somebody shot...
...healthy? "You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy," H.G. Wells suggested long before the Net. "Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy, and unreliable--but teach him, inoculate him with chess." A Chilean friend quit the club and deleted the whole program from his computer after clicking on a whimsical feature that calculated "percentage of your life wasted on chess." (I paraphrase.) He found the number disturbingly high...
...Dartmouth College for their first televised debate. The debate was only a few minutes old when Gore charged that Bradley's plan would cost "more than the entire surplus over the next 10 years" and "shred the social safety net." The attack, a Bradley adviser says, "was a dagger to Bradley's heart," but he barely tried to wave it away. "We each have our own experts," he said mildly. "I dispute the cost figure that Al has used." Gore went into Dartmouth with his polls showing him 11 points behind in New Hampshire; after a week of savaging Bradley...
...sharp further rise in interest rates would be "a dagger in the heart" of the U.S. stock market, says Vincent Farrell, chief investment officer of Spears, Benzak, Salomon & Farrell, an investment firm. But he believes the dagger is well sheathed: "Interest rates have probably about run their course." Abby Joseph Cohen, who chairs the investment policy committee at Goldman Sachs, is more emphatic. Says she: "I think yields on long-term bonds cannot move much higher and stay there on a sustained basis...