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Like Dan Morales, Moore is one of the Davids wielding the slingshots against the tobacco Goliath. In 1994 he filed the first lawsuit by a state seeking to recoup the cost of health care for smoking-related illness. In spite of his professed wonderment that "little ole Mississippi" has taken the lead, it's fully in character for this aggressive and self-promoting prosecutor who got his start battling Gulf Coast corruption, and personally packed a gun to go on a drug raid. Moore, probably the most popular elected official in his state right now, is considering...
...great American marketplace produces certain legendary commercial rivalries: Coke vs. Pepsi, Leno vs. Letterman, Republicans vs. Democrats. Now we welcome the first digital-age combatants: Netscape and Microsoft, the David and Goliath of the Internet...
...which all subsequent would-be futurists have been measured. A quarter-century later, having been catapulted back onto the front pages through their association with Newt Gingrich's "cyberbrain trust," the Tofflers are about to be repackaged for the digital era by Creative Artists Agency, the Hollywood agenting Goliath. The vehicle for this effort: a multimedia clearinghouse called FutureNet, which is building everything from a site on the World Wide Web to a weekend televised magazine and an ambitious half-hour weeknight TV show called Next News Now. NNN will report not what happened today or yesterday but what will...
...last few months, however, Netscape has found itself in open combat with Microsoft, the Goliath of the software industry. Microsoft has released its own browser, Internet Explorer (IE), to go head-to-head with the upstart Netscape...
...democracy of Taiwan is special. It is a germ of democracy that will fool China's immune system if China insists on taking us on. David will once again win the battle over Goliath. MING-JING HWANG Taipei Via E-mail...