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...great hacker but also a world-class CEO. Microsoft's warp-speed reinvention may set the standard for information-age corporate agility. "I don't think you'd be interviewing me on this topic if we were any less nimble," Gates told Time. "You'd be writing our epitaph...
...politics--they have their hands full chronicling Sharon Stone's love life and following Madonna around with a camera--but when they do, they make it count. In 1987 the National Enquirer printed a photo of Donna Rice sitting on Gary Hart's lap, creating the most infamous visual epitaph for his crashed political career. Four years ago, the Star ran a story on Gennifer Flowers' alleged affair with Bill Clinton, throwing a major scare into his campaign just before the New Hampshire primary. And last week it was the Star's sensational account of Dick Morris' alleged trysts with...
...certainly premature to write his epitaph. He has survived many bouts of ill health in the past, weathering an apparent nervous breakdown, a kidney disorder and, of course, his chronic problem with alcohol. With each rebound, he has seemed to delight in showing off his vigorous constitution, shaming pundits who were on the verge of announcing his demise...
...create more beautiful music? That music was often swell, and as leader of the most fan-friendly band in rock, Garcia was a sort of secular saint of pop culture. But he stuffed himself with seductive toxins--and the myth of the bohemian king--until he burst. His epitaph could be three words: Great. Full. Dead...
...communism fell in 1989. The words embraced all: winners and losers, soldiers and civilians, the innocent and the guilty. To Lubos and me, men whose people had been at war with one another not all that long ago in the century's greatest tragedy, it seemed the appropriate, conciliatory epitaph...