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...after the United States launched its ferocious air attack on Iraq, the man George Bush called a new Hitler is still in power. And Bush, the undisputed victor in the war, is not. Tonight, President Bush will admit in a Public Broadcasting Service television interview with David Frost: "I miscalculated," a reference to his decision to stop short of driving Hussein from power when he had the chance. Says President Bush: "I thought he'd be gone." TIME's Edward Barnes, who covered the war for LIFE Magazine, reports that this is only one of many ironies of the Gulf...
...year that Bill Gates, chairman and co-founder of Microsoft, rose above the confines of computer land and became a global celebrity, an icon of the information age. He wrote a best-selling book, The Road Ahead (Viking; $29.95), and hawked it on talk shows from David Frost to David Letterman. He commandeered the world press to promote the launch of Windows 95. He defied government probes of his finger-in-the-eye business practices, even as he was leveraging his control of computer software to edge his way into banking, retailing, interactive television and Hollywood. His net worth ballooned...
...poet. But his greatest plays are flush with poetry in the broad sense--with moments of compressed lyrical yearning. A number of his most famous lines (like Blanche DuBois' valedictory "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers") might well have surfaced in one of Robert Frost's adage-laden verse-monologues...
...Bioengineered DNA was, weight for weight, the most valuable material in the world. A single microscopic bacterium, too small to see with the naked eye, but containing the genes for a heart-attack enzyme, streptokinase, or for 'ice-minus,' which prevented frost damage to crops, might be worth $5 billion to the right buyer." There is popularity in a passage like that. It bears information a man, even a casual-reading man, can do something with. Win a bar bet. Pass the time creatively on the scaffold with the hangman. It is skinny with legs. Crichton is Captain Reliable...
...Manhattan's @ Cafe. "But you can sit at the computer and discuss world politics with the people next to you or people in Singapore." Many singles, in fact, are finding cyberboites a congenial place for real, as opposed to virtual, mingling. It is such a nonintimidating atmosphere, says Joyce Frost, a banker and first-time visitor to @ Cafe, who views cafes like this as a good place to strike up conversations. "I can talk to a guy and ask him to explain this or that to me. It has more of a focal point than most bars...