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Ballmer will have plenty of other matters on his screen, however. Personal computer sales are on a downward trend, and the home and small-office/home-office markets, both hailed as the next wave in computing, are stagnant. In addition, that wild and wacky Internet, with its open standards, could potentially topple Microsoft's apple cart, eliminating the need for a Microsoft OS on every desktop...
...with the ups and downs of teenage life, "I Will Still Be Laughing" sings of bitter revenge, but does so in a realistic and interesting way, rather than rehashing the stereotype of the angry teenager who hates the world. The song portrays teenage life as a cycle, not a downward spiral, and therefore has no reason to become overly bitter or cynical, nor overly cheesy. It feels like an objective memoir, not colored to be happy or sad, but rather of the stuff that life is made of: pain, pleasure, beauty, anger and, most of all, uncertainty. Consider some...
...McCartney and his assistants are busily sketching out a 1999 stadium schedule. Their next spectacular is called "1-1-2000," a multisite New Year's Day 2000 celebration by both men and women in all 50 states. Says McCartney: "Let's face it. Morality in this nation is spiraling downward, out of control. Christians are a minority, and we have to stand up and be counted." The problem is, the count at present is dropping...
...dollar for 15 years, would have little choice but to abandon that link, with possibly disastrous results for its stock and property markets. We got a taste of what that might mean for the U.S. and Europe at the beginning of last week, when global stock markets began cascading downward because of the weakness of the yen. The disarray in those markets coupled with China's complaints prompted the U.S. and Japan to intervene last week to prop...
...attacked people at his school dance, killing a science instructor with a .25-cal. handgun in April. In Springfield last Friday, at the Lane County courthouse, 15-year-old Kipland Phillip Kinkel, the son of two schoolteachers, slumped in his chair, his face blank and his eyes fixed downward as he faced four charges of aggravated murder...