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...that jockeying for political and economic advantage that has splintered the central-African alliance. Oil-rich Angola, under the leadership of Jose Eduardo dos Santos, has supported Kabila since they began fighting together to unseat Mobutu at the end of 1996. Namibia, in support of Angola, has sent a small force to support Kabila. Zimbabwe's leader, Robert Mugabe, has sent 10,000 soldiers to Kabila's assistance. In return, Kabila has promised Zimbabwe a slice of Congo's economic pie: lucrative contracts with Congo's mining conglomerate and the protection of investments by Mugabe cronies...
...Scrutiny is due on Sunday. Not the Sunday before it arrives in your doorbox (if it arrives in your doorbox), but the Sunday before that. This is deadline numero uno. Deadline numero dos occurs on Thursday. That's when all the other stuff is due, all the timely For the Moments and storied In the Meantime. Listing prove the one exception: Their deadline comes on Friday. Mind you, though, they should have been assigned the Monday before. And their content must cover not the following week, but the week after that. Confused? I'll tell you a secret...
...Scrutiny is due on Sunday. Not the Sunday before it arrives in your doorbox (if it arrives in your doorbox), but the Sunday before that. This is deadline numero uno. Deadline numero dos occurs on Thursday. That's when all the other stuff is due, all the timely For the Moments and storied In the Meantimes. Listings prove the one exception: Their deadline comes on Friday. Mind you, though, they should have been assigned the Monday before. And their content must cover not the following week, but the week after that. Confused? I'll tell you a secret...
...this scenario, Judge Jackson would force Microsoft to sign a consent decree containing a list of dos and don'ts--no more arm twisting for exclusive deals with computer manufacturers, no more inviting competitors to divide markets. This is the remedy given the least serious consideration by the attorneys general, who say Microsoft has a history of violating consent decrees...
Apple released the Macintosh in January 1984: a tony, sophisticated computer was now available to the masses. Henceforth DOS was not merely homely, it was obsolete. But it continued to rake in money, so what if the critics hated it? In May 1990, Microsoft finally perfected its own version of Apple windows and called it Microsoft Windows 3.0--another huge hit. Now Gates really (I mean really) had it made...