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...starting businesses, even going so far as to call their bedrooms "offices." (You can imagine the formative entrepreneurial scolding at the Case house: "Steve, go to your office!") Case's father was a Hawaii power-lawyer; his mom taught at the school her kids attended. Case's older brother Dan was always regarded as the family comet: Princeton, Rhodes scholarship, prestigious investment bank...
Case began his professional life as cannon fodder at Procter & Gamble, an assistant brand manager working on products such as Abound!, a failed, wipe-on hair cleanser. Case couldn't hack the glacial pace at P&G. So in 1983, after an introduction from brother Dan, he jumped to a start-up called Control Video Corp., which was perfecting the "can't lose" idea of shilling TV-top boxes that would download and play video games over telephone lines. The idea bombed. But a bit of financial legerdemain turned the firm into Quantum Computer Services, which ran an online network...
That may be Microsoft's greatest challenge to date--and exactly what Justice wants to thwart. "For Microsoft to come in and impose proprietary source codes will be very difficult," says Dan Kusnetzky of International Data Corp...
...time.com/personal for more on interest rates. Dan appears regularly on cnnfn. His e-mail address is kadlec@time.com
Twinkie Defense, 1977 --Dan White, a San Francisco supervisor, claimed sugary foods--such as Hostess Twinkies--put him into a heightened emotional state when he killed Mayor George Moscone and fellow Supervisor Harvey Milk. Verdict: guilty, but on the reduced charge of voluntary manslaughter. Rioting ensues...