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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bemused Cambridge officer walked up to Barber and his friend, and asked who had chased the suspect...
...know he loves it. And for many employees, the boss's volatile demeanor is a small price to pay for that passion. "Steve might be capable of reducing someone to tears," says John Patrick Crecine, an academic turned entrepreneur and Jobs friend of long standing, "but it's not because he's meanspirited; it's because he's absolutely single minded, almost manic, in his pursuit of quality and excellence." Indeed, Jobs' most potent weapon is still his messianic zeal to fulfill his original vision of Apple as the bridge between the average citizen and the mysterious world...
...lived in a fortified hole in the ground called a pit house, with no plumbing or electricity. He kept writing but was mainly, according to a friend, "a lost, searching, unhappy soul." He and Ted wrote each other frequently, extremely tender at times but just as often engaged in brittle clashes of ego. "If that story is typical of your previous writing," Ted wrote after David sent him some of his fiction, "then it's obvious why no one wants to publish your stuff--it's just plain bad, by anyone's standard...
Maree Florence has a spot reserved in her living room for at least an hour each day. The ritual is simple; she sits down, calls a friend and turns on the TV. She's not interested in following the inflated antics on General Hospital or in catching the latest familial betrayal on Jerry Springer. Instead, she turns on the back-to-back A Wedding Story and A Baby Story--half-hour shows about real couples getting married and having kids--on TLC daytime. "I cry at every one," says the 21-year-old Georgia mom. "I can't help...
...late 1991, AKIO MORITA, a colleague on the Trilateral Commission and a longtime friend, told me he was concerned about the state of U.S.-Japanese relations. In the wake of a series of high-profile acquisitions of American properties, including Rockefeller Center, by Japanese companies, Japan bashing had become somewhat of a national sport in the U.S., and a tone of superiority had crept into many public pronouncements emanating from Tokyo. Akio proposed that the two of us attempt to counter this trend through "dialogue" that would be taped for TV and then published in Japan. His purpose...