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Whether anything but rhetorical heat and resentment will come out of this whole debacle remains to be seen. At worst it could do severe damage to the loan system on which museums depend, while adding very little to the principles of restitution of stolen property. But that's what can happen when grandstanding pols and D.A.s get in on emotionally supercharged issues that ought to be resolved with tact and studious neutrality...
...grow indifferent or irresponsible after tenure? And would we be stuck with his disaffection for 40 years?--then it hinged on an evaluation of his character. And he should have passed. Masten is not the highly productive colleague one never sees but the highly productive colleague on whom communities depend. Professor Leo Damrosch's support (Letters, Jan. 12) suggests that he agrees...
...Microsoft's] assertions are unfounded and overblown and depend largely on assumptions and conjecture," it read...
Intel has ceased being just a Silicon Valley wonder. It has become a weather vane for an entire digital economy, a complete ecosystem of drive manufacturers, software houses and Web programmers whose businesses depend on escalating PC growth. Because Grove and his firm control the blueprints of the PC, he is in the unique position of being able to tell customers what to do. Intel sets release dates for new chips, dictating the pace of the computer industry with the confident aplomb of fashion designers raising or lowering hemlines. It's the sort of ironfisted market grip that rarely exists...
...Japan is in a race to reinvent itself. Unlike Korea, Thailand or Indonesia, whose recoveries depend humblingly on multibillion-dollar handouts from the IMF, Asia's first economic miracle baby has the wherewithal--financial and social--to do the job on its own. The world's biggest creditor nation has more than $11 trillion in household financial assets alone. Having gone through substantial reorganization in recent years, its top manufacturing companies can compete with the best of the rest...