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...these days, not everyone is on the Vice President's bandwidth. His biggest high-tech achievement to date is a program to wire every classroom and library in the country. He has heralded it as "a turning point that [will] transform the shape of America." But right now, the program is under assault from Congress as an out-of-control entitlement engineered by an out-of-control bureaucracy. Which does not do much for Gore's reputation as the architect of reinventing government. Even more ominous is another threat: starting this summer, phone companies that were ordered...
Vajpayee takes it, just a week after assuming leadership on March 19, bringing into his confidence only two Cabinet members. A quick internal study concludes that India would suffer manageable pain as a result of international economic penalties. Vajpayee picks an auspicious date for the test: May 11, the same Buddhist holiday when the 1974 nuclear test went...
...minutes and 13 seconds after the last track. As any aficionado knows, Ten Thirteen is the name of Carter's production company; on the TV show, it's also the time frequently shown on clocks, 555-1013 is a common phone number, and October 13 is often the date. (It's Carter's birthday.) In Carter's piece, the text of which is top secret, he explains how the X-Files came to being and the conspiracy around them. The truth is out there. You just have to wait around a bit to hear...
...publication of two histories of the Rat Pack; a pair of Rat Pack movies are in the works (an HBO film starring Ray Liotta as Sinatra and a Martin Scorsese film about Dean Martin); and a few weeks ago, the cable channel TV Land drew its highest ratings to date with a never before broadcast Rat Pack concert from...
...ROMs bearing the all-important "gold code" for Win 98 were due to be delivered to the likes of Dell, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard this Friday. Microsoft spokesman Mark Murray said the fact it had been delayed "will not have any impact on the commercial launch date" for the top operating system upgrade, still set for June 25. What Reno et al would like before then is an agreement to let manufacturers remove the Internet Explorer icon, among others, from the Win 98 desktop. She shouldn't hold her breath. Given Microsoft's penchant for brinksmanship, that could take some...