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...chosen occupation--J.D. wanted him to be a naval officer. "By the time he was diagnosed," he says, "we'd made our peace." In 1996 he wrote one of his finest songs, False Echoes, about J.D., a sober lyric without fancy wordplay about a man who "fades like a flare...
...vacation, he can talk to the grand jury. And at the end of the day, there were widespread leaks throughout the city that Monica had offered Starr examples of hypothetical statements in which Clinton had tried to guide her comments in the Paula Jones case. It was a signal flare to the White House: give it up. For Clinton the situation was deteriorating fast...
...policy, and will use the failure of Arafat's strategy to push its own claims for leadership. The likely response? "Arafat will probably try to rally the Palestinians behind him and get them to take action in support of his demands. He may be hoping that a couple of flare-ups will bring the fire brigade from Washington," says Hamad. "But the fire brigade may be out of water...
...much it cost Microsoft nemesis Netscape to convince the infamously conservative author of the free-market classic The Antitrust Paradox that Bill Gates is in fact guilty of violating a set of laws that Bork hitherto regarded as contradictory at best and destructive at worst. But as hostilities flare between the software titan and its many foes (the Justice Department, the House and Senate judiciary committees and a flock of state attorneys general are all scrutinizing Microsoft's monopoly power), both sides are hiring whomever it takes to win over public opinion, and price appears to be no object...
...continued quiet in Asia is really the key," says Schwartz. Tech bellwethers like Intel, Microsoft, and Cisco, supposedly the primary victims of sluggish overseas markets, have been rising steadily of late. And at home, potential flare-ups like the Lewinsky scandal ("Wall Street loves stability," Schwartz says) have had no effect on Bill Clinton's approval ratings--except to push them higher. And a military strike on Iraq looks weeks away. "Wall Street is emotional," Schwartz says. All the big players are buying, and when the mood is this good, only a real catastrophe is capable of spoiling...