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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...model has devout believers. "I'm absolutely thrilled," comments James D. Robinson, who as CEO of American Express in the 1980s tried to marry banking, credit cards and other products with brokerage services in a financial supermarket. His plan dissolved amid corporate infighting and data-sharing nightmares that are now easily remedied with more powerful computers and better software. Another booster is Congressman Jim Leach, chairman of the House Banking Committee. He predicts that the bill will save consumers $15 billion a year in lower rates and fees...
...With reporting by Bernard Baumohl and Aixa M. Pascual/New York and Adam Zagorin/Washington
...mainly what you'd expect, Ghent says: heavy on computer problems and requests for money. It may be confusing, and a little misleading, but ultimately it's harmless. Ghent isn't trying to make any money from the site. "It's kind of a hobby," he says. "I'm just hanging out in cyberspace." Ghent says he's never tried to get the world's richest man to buy the site, and Gates hasn't approached him. If Bill Gates can survive without his domain name, we probably...
...much as a curiosity. He looked like a Rotarian Santa Claus. After the Senators and pages all shook his hand--a dry hand, soft and bony at the same time, like grasping a small, fragile bird--another page, overcome by his (rather forgiving) sense of history, exclaimed, "I'm never going to wash my hand again...
They've also learned how to beat the Brits at their own game. After a slow start, the Homies & Popz rally. "That's what I'm talking about!" Hayes cheers after a good play. "Sport of kings! Thinking man's game!" Steve Castaneda, 18, bowls four wickets--"He practices in his backyard with lemons," Haber says--as the chaps from the 'hood sink the Mayflower, 121-84. And the chorus of their celebratory rap goes like this...