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...Bill Gates is rich enough to buy NBC," says TIME's Philip Elmer-DeWitt. "But he doesn't make purchases recklessly. He doesn't buy just to get bigger. Everything is part of an integrated plan." That plan may include a partnership with NBC. After a report last week that Microsoft might invest in NBC's planned 24-hour news service, the rumors grew that Gates was after bigger game. A report in Variety said that Microsoft was considering buying as much as 49 percent of NBC in a deal that could cost in excess of $4 billion. A Microsoft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICROSOFT EYES NBC | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

...communicate her sense of excitement, Nash uses bold metaphorical leaps and descriptive passages that can bring to life a half-billion-year-old fossil ("plump Aysheaia," she writes, "prancing on caterpillar-like legs"). These gifts, says senior editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt, make Nash "a national treasure--one of the few who can see the cutting edge of science, report it deeply, and then write about it with grace and style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers, Dec. 4, 1995 | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

Still, Anthony L. DeWitt '96, a teaching fellow this semester for Computer Science 141: "Computing Hardware," says the material he works with is fairly objective...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell and Douglas M. Pravda, S | Title: Should Undergraduates Grade Other Students? | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

...DeWitt says the use of undergraduate teaching fellows should be accompanied by a system of checks and balances...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell and Douglas M. Pravda, S | Title: Should Undergraduates Grade Other Students? | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

...have had instances where an undergraduate TF graded an assignment of mine in a way I though to be unfair," DeWitt says. "But when I asked another TF or the professor to check over the work, they were happy to do so and get back to me. I can live with this...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell and Douglas M. Pravda, S | Title: Should Undergraduates Grade Other Students? | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

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