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...RETAKES? No, it's so much fun. It's all the good stuff from my old show, but because it's live, I have to be spontaneous, which I love. I have a participatory audience and guests--experts as well as celebrities. It's a how-to show with entertainment...
...reason for Buckley's conversion is speed. "Writing on the word processor takes less time," he declares. So much less, in fact, that even his professional friends are impressed. "It takes Bill 20 minutes to write a column," says Peter McWilliams, an acquaintance and the author of several best-selling, how-to computer books (The Word Processing Book, The Personal Computer Book). "Word processors were really made...
Crazy as all this sounds--we're talking GM here, the world's largest automaker--Kerkorian practically wrote the how-to book on such tactics. In the late '70s he loaded up on shares of Columbia Pictures, then turned into such a litigious nightmare that Columbia bought his stake for a 50% premium, a settlement that Fay Vincent, then CEO of Columbia, called "greenmail" (a characterization disputed by a Kerkorian spokesman). In the '90s Kerkorian was at the center of a gear-grinding saga with Chrysler. After buying a big stake and standing by for a few years, he launched...
...some disaster strike your machine. On the other hand, moving your media collection off your local drive will free up space, and possibly improve your PC's overall performance. A hard drive that's close to maxing out can really slow things down, notes Omid Rahmat, publisher of tomshardware.com, a how-to site for the more tech savvy user...
...Germany's greatest challenge remains what Horst Kohler, the new President, describes as "the uncertainty" felt throughout society. "We need a new spirit of initiative," Kohler said in May. That spirit may be taking hold. One indication is all the do-it-yourself stores and how-to classes springing up across the country as people adapt to hard times. According to marketing company SevenOne Media, Germans spend $43.7 billion a year on home improvements, double the amount spent in Britain and France. The biggest beneficiary of this trend is OBI, the Home Depot of Europe, whose CEO, Sergio Giroldi, says...