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Like many politicians and privileged sons of his era, Forbes avoided the major conflict of his generation, the Vietnam War, by enlisting in the National Guard. His idea of cultural rebellion was to decline to join one of Princeton's exclusive eating clubs. As second-in-command at his family's publishing empire, the Wall Street Journal reported last week, Forbes did not act on suggestions that his father, widely rumored to be bisexual, had propositioned male employees. When two squabbling secretaries did not want to work side by side in his outer office, his solution was to build...
...with expensive new projects while its core business swooned. Apple is laying off 1,300 of its 14,500 workers as part of a restructuring Spindler launched last month but which was clearly not seen as enough. Some experts doubt that Amelio will have better luck. "The change of guard gives the appearance of a fresh start, but Amelio cannot change the fundamentals of the company," says Richard Shaffer, editor of Technologic Partners Newsletter. Apple is trapped as a niche player in the very PC market it helped create, he says. In other words, watch for the ground to shake...
...indeed. In 27 minutes, the Lakers' old point guard and new power forward scored 19 points, assisted on 10 other baskets and pulled down eight rebounds. As impressive as those numbers were, it was the transcendent smile he flashed throughout the game that made the night so special--not just for the 17,505 who were there, or for the 3 million households that watched the game on TV, but also for the 19 million people around the world who are trying to cope with the fact that they, like Magic, are HIV-positive. Says Sean Strub, the founder...
...going out to have unprotected sex with Magic on the floor." (According to the Centers for Disease Control, a basketball player's chance of contracting AIDS from incidental touching is 1 in 85 million.) There are still a few holdouts on the side of ignorance, such as troublemaking guard Vernon Maxwell of the Philadelphia 76ers, who said last week, "You get scratched on your hand, and then he might get an open wound. I don't want to be there with that. I have a wife and kids." But as Johnson said, when told of Maxwell's concern...
...MONTHS LATER, JOHNSON was working out with the Lakers, who until last week were a young and talented but leaderless team stuck in third place in the Pacific Division. After a few practice sessions, the guard tandem of Nick Van Exel and Eddie Jones, and later coach Del Harris and Laker executive vice president Jerry West, put a full-court press on Johnson, asking him to return, telling him that he was just what the team needed. Said Harris: "I don't care if I have to sleep outside his house. I want him." Perhaps the most important endorsement came...