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...named "Machine of the Year." This week's issue also caps a year in which TIME's commitment to the digital era bore richer fruit than ever. We consider the computer revolution one of the defining stories of our time. Our coverage in 1997 ranged from managing editor Walter Isaacson's groundbreaking profile of Bill Gates of Microsoft to that company's bailout of Apple and AOL's acquisition of CompuServe...
...hard at making The Angel of Darkness (Random House; $25.95) as impudent and beguiling as The Alienist and for the most part succeeds. The old gang is back: Miss Howard, the derringer-packing feminist detective; Moore, the boozy New York Times reporter; Cyrus, the piano-playing coachman; the redoubtable Isaacson detective brothers; and Stevie, the reformed street urchin, who later, as a grown man, narrates the adventure. (His urchin usage is not unfailingly convincing, as in "I remember reading in The Principles of Psychology, that doorstop of a book--what Professor William James had written...and which I'd fought...
...Ohio native and an Oberlin College graduate, Duffy views his appointment with characteristic modesty. "Thanks to Goodgame, TIME's Washington bureau is the finest orchestra in the capital," he says. "Getting the chance to be its conductor is an honor and a treat." Managing editor Walter Isaacson is not so modest about the promotion. "Duffy is a true great," he says. "He's a great reporter, a great writer, a great worker, a great thinker and a great human being." Hiring him may be the best mistake we ever made...
...waters of the Atlantic Ocean, then boarded a Greyhound bus in Ocean City, Md. They followed no campaign trail, no flood line, no militia uprising, but rather the road itself--U.S. Highway 50. "As reporters, we regularly fly to crisis spots and world capitals," says managing editor Walter Isaacson, who caught up with the bus in Cincinnati on Thursday. "But we don't often make time to look for news that is happening in communities across the nation...
...report on Bill Gates, Walter Isaacson provided insight that has given us a new perception of the man [BUSINESS, Jan. 13]. Gates, apart from his lack of emotional empathy with mankind and his ruthless business prowess, is the intellectual thinker for modern-day society. He knew what he wanted and was determined to achieve it. Instead of being a victim of circumstance, he turned events to his purpose. That's why he is today the ceo of Microsoft Corp., the world's richest man and perhaps the modern-day Napoleon of the technological world. But I wonder, Is Bill Gates...