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...know. But I am still worried about the terrible, institutionalized temptation that will be installed if Kevorkianism becomes legal. I knew a man who was broke and trying to send his children through college, but was heir to his uncle's modest fortune. The uncle, amiably gaga and perversely vigorous, lived on and on, through his 80s, into his 90s. His round-the-clock medical care ate through the money. My friend gnashed his teeth and lived on baked beans. How he longed to put in a call to Dr. Jack...
Dashing, mercurial, impetuous and given to wild bouts of infectious enthusiasm--Microsoft employees were warned to beware of his "reality-distortion field"--Jobs drove Apple's engineers to build not just good but "insanely great" products that would "make a dent in the universe." He lured PepsiCo's designated heir to his Cupertino, Calif., headquarters with what may have been history's craftiest job pitch. "Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water," he asked John Sculley, "or do you want a chance to change the world...
...Gore was there, of course, in his role as Goliath. He was granted the prime speaking slot, and drew the biggest audience. And he arrived with an entourage so large and so befitting an heir to the throne -- complete with communications aides, speech writers and press secretaries, image consultants, policy experts and Secret Service agents -- that it seemed a deliberate effort to taunt his Democratic rivals, a dare to take him on. In his speech, he ignored them completely, choosing instead to tangle with Texas Gov. George W. Bush, upon whom Republican hopes for victory in 2000 have quickly come...
...that James Whale may have given Gods and Monsters an unfavorable review. Granted, the acting is stellar: Ian McKellen turns yet another masterful performance as the aging filmmaker, Brendan Fraser gives a surprisingly adept take on Clayton Boone, the naive young love interest of the homosexual Whale. Lynn Redgrave, heir to her family's tradition of great acting, takes on the role of Hanna, the staid housekeeper who mediates between Whale and Boone with notable sensitivity, making sympathetic a character who could have been made merely boring in less talented hands. The screenplay too, authored by director Bill Condon...
MOSCOW: Quick, find Boris an heir. With Russia's President Yeltsin reduced to conducting the affairs of state from his hospital bed on Monday, Kremlin insiders were planning his succession. The problem is that constitutionally, Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov can rule for only 100 days, after which new presidential elections would have to be held. Which is why the Kremlin wants to revive the vice presidency scrapped by Yeltsin, and tap Primakov for the post. "As vice president, Primakov could take over as interim president until the 2000 elections," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. And that would...