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...those people blessed with the sort of memory for facts usually on display when 14-year-olds argue football trivia with their elders. Ask Deacon about a recording of a composition by a particular pianist, and he will rattle off all the details: the record label, the date and place of the recording, possibly even the precise microphone placement for the session. It's also likely that the recording will be in Deacon's personal collection of 25,000 LPs and 10,000 CDs. So when Philips decided to anthologize the work of this century's finest pianists, Deacon...
SOLUTION NO. 4 Shut off the flow of low-cost loans from the Department of Housing and Urban Development that have helped fuel the competition to snag companies. These loans date from the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 and were aimed at "eliminating slums and blight." Today, TIME has found, HUD loans help bankroll such projects as a waterfront restaurant in Jacksonville, Fla. (it later went out of business), a downtown hotel in Philadelphia and an upscale fashion retailer in Spokane, Wash. In that case, a $24 million HUD loan arranged by the city of Spokane will...
...Justice Department begins Week Six of its hard-hitting case, Microsoft's blithe confidence is starting to resemble a room-size mainframe computer that operates on punch cards: it's more than a little out of date. Executives from Intel, Apple and other high-tech leaders have been parading into federal court in Washington with tales of being bullied, bloodied and browbeaten by Microsoft. Even onetime skeptics among the experts following the case are starting to ask, What if the government actually wins this thing...
...stunning victory gave executives at Sun's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., a chance to be magnanimous. "We'd be more than happy to help Microsoft become compatible," offered Sun vice president Alan Baratz. While the ruling was only a preliminary injunction (a trial date hasn't even been set yet), you can forgive Sun for acting like giant killers. Whyte is a tech-savvy judge with a reputation for weighty, watertight decisions. Sun's case, he wrote, is likely to succeed on merit...
...been desperately trying to avoid extradition to Spain where he faces a series of serious criminal charges stemming from his years of authoritarian rule. A continued stay in the hospital had obviously helped the General pursue his strategy of fight and delay, but no more: His next British court date is set for December 11. For the now-well patient, it may be time -- if not to open all the dossiers -- at least to open all the windows and welcome in that London...