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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...
...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...
...scheduled performances began around 6:30 p.m. The first act featured, Elmer Fudd and a strikingly tall Bugs Bunny in drag. Bugs wore a faux fur bikini top and bottom, a faux fur cape, waist-length blond braids, and a Viking helmet with horns...
...steps of the Harvard Lampoon Castle became a Canadian enclave, complete with Mounties and Canadian flags, yesterday afternoon as the Lampoon presented its annual Elmer Award for Lifetime Comic Achievement to Canadian-born actor and comedian Phil Hartman...
Recipients of the Elmer Award, given in honor of Elmer Green, custodian of the Castle for 50 years, are chosen "on a basis of funny," the Lampoon said in a statement. According to Lampoon ibis, or vice president, John Abbott '96, the Elmer Award has been given annually "for at least 20 years...