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Thank you for your superb and insightful story on Microsoft's Bill Gates [BUSINESS, Jan. 13]. I especially liked the way Walter Isaacson prodded Gates to think "philosophically," which he eventually did. Gates really scares me. Society should not allow any one person to amass as much economic power as Gates has. We need some modern-day versions of the old Sherman and Clayton antitrust laws to regulate computer commerce. We need, too, to stop worshipping at the altar of high technology. It has only instrumental value and needs to be judged by how efficiently it promotes genuine aesthetic...
...weekly surge of events and put the year in perspective. This year brought us a national election, but it also brought a medical breakthrough not nearly so well publicized: a significant advance in the battle against AIDS, pioneered by a scientist named David Ho. Says managing editor Walter Isaacson: "Dr. Ho did not make the most headlines, but he helped make history. We'll look back on 1996 as the year when we finally made progress against a plague that has been frightening the world for more than a decade...
...Friday morning, the day after he resigned, Dick Morris spoke by phone with managing editor Walter Isaacson. Subdued and unusually mellow, Morris repeatedly refused to talk about the allegations against him, but he discussed the internal debates leading up to the convention. Though clearly self-serving, the interview gives an interesting glimpse at Morris' perception of what his role had been...
Hillary Rodham Clinton met last week with TIME managing editor Walter Isaacson and talked about her activism on behalf of children. The issue may not be just abstract. She and the President are talking about having another child, she said, or adopting one. Excerpts...
...handsome 90 percent of the Democratic primary vote. Both Dole and Forbes suffered commensurately, and Lamar Alexander, the third-place finisher, found more ears for his argument of electability. "There's been a backlash against negative advertising and he capitalized on it," says TIME Managing Editor Walter Isaacson. "He seems to be the decent candidate, although people will still have a lot of doubt about him." Said Alexander after the tallies came in: "The Republican Party will never unify behind...