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...such a perfect wartime mayor if he hadn't had his own brush with death. No one would wish all those dark nights of sickness on anyone. But in a man who had often seemed indifferent if not callous to the feelings of others, prostate cancer brought out a gentler side that New Yorkers had rarely seen. As he dropped out of the 2000 Senate race, Rudy acknowledged how suddenly vulnerable to the slings and arrows of life he'd become. A soulful awareness of the fragility of life and an inexhaustible supply of can-do optimism has been indispensable...
...such a perfect wartime mayor if he hadn't had his own brush with death. No one would wish all those dark nights of sickness on anyone. But in a man who had often seemed indifferent if not callous to the feelings of others, prostate cancer brought out a gentler side that New Yorkers had rarely seen. As he dropped out of the 2000 Senate race, Rudy acknowledged how suddenly vulnerable to the slings and arrows of life he'd become. A soulful awareness of the fragility of life and an inexhaustible supply of can-do optimism has been indispensable...
BILL GATES Gov't won't carve up Microsoft. Company doesn't even gloat. A kinder, gentler monopoly...
...dissuaded from Mac OS X largely because of the arrogance of Apple. Well, Microsoft is just in a whole other universe of arrogance. Don't even get me started on its .Net and Passport strategies (that's another article altogether). But remember, we're talking about kinder, gentler Microsofties, at least compared with the pre-antitrust trial version. Then they were viciously monopolistic. Now, they're just plain sneaky, and they're trying to fly under your radar. My advice: don't let them...
...Policy" of engagement with North Korea. One common complaint: South Korea pours aid into North Korea and gets little in return. Smaller newspapers, which are less critical of Kim's policies (and less influential), got off lightly in the tax inquiry. The opposition also says Kim wants a kinder, gentler media ahead of next year's presidential election. Kim cannot run again but he'll help pick his party's candidate. The President dismissed the charges last week, calling the tax probe "fair...