Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appropriate at this moment to grasp for traces of Harvard maturity? How, in a Commencement reflection, can I defend the self-images so jubilantly assumed by myself and others...
Lucky for Bill Gates that he's the world's richest geek. Already saddled with three trials about existing Microsoft software, Gates now has to defend an operating system at the heart of what's supposed to be next year's Big Thing. Two days after the trustbusting main event got going again in Washington, Danbury-based Bristol Technology Inc. opened its own suit against the Redmond giant, claiming that Gates & Co. put the Seattle screws to their software business by withholding vital information when Bristol licensed MS's Windows NT system. "Now it's official -- all of Microsoft...
...Although both governments want to avoid a slide into all-out war, India is determined to respond forcefully to the most serious incursion into its territory since 1948," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "Pakistan may be tempted to defend the infiltrators by attacking Indian planes, but that would mean a full-scale war." Pakistan has denied responsibility for the incursion by heavily armed insurgents, some of whom may have been trained in the Afghanistan camps of alleged superterrorist Osama Bin Laden. But Islamabad's protestations of innocence are dismissed in New Delhi, which insists that an incursion...
...gamemakers wouldn't defend their industry, their customers were happy to try. Paul Good, 30, an artist from Maryland with long pink hair and a half-shaved head, insisted that violent video games defuse, not provoke, violence. "When the world p_____ you off and you need a place to vent," he explained, "Quake is a great place for it. You can kill somebody and watch the blood run down the walls, and it feels good. But when it's done...
...years dying of cancer, yet so alive was she with ideas about world events, she made one forget the inevitable. Her small, frail body would shake with rage or laughter at Clinton and Monica, at Congress, at her beloved city of Washington, which she would ridicule in private and defend against outside assaults, as one would a foolish child...