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...less ridiculous than the Chinese government's insistence that NATO's bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade was the result of a conspiracy. Let's hope cooler heads prevail and Sino-American relations improve in the long run, to the benefit of all of us. HONG MA Port Jefferson Station...
DIED. JAMES ("ROSY") MCHARGUE, 97, leather-lunged jazz reedman who played with Benny Goodman and Kay Kyser; in Santa Monica, Calif. The clarinetist, saxophonist and vocalist--whose career in clubs lasted 70 years--got his nickname from singing the Hawaiian novelty song When Rosy Riccoola Do da Hoola Ma Boola...
...senior spring, keeping up with classes and pursuing jobs (to little avail), there was no time to be melancholy about my last trip to Hilles, my last helping of General Wong's chicken or my last section. Indeed, eight months later, I am still sick of add-drop forms, Ma Soba, the Grille and Harvard chairs. I am still ready to leave...
Microsoft won that bid with its much publicized $5 billion purchase of AT&T stock. Now it's set to provide Ma Bell with up to 10 million set-top boxes preloaded with a stripped-down version of Windows. AOL missed out, and its stock went into a brief tailspin. But broadband is not a zero-sum game--at least, not yet. Case quickly countered with his own new deal, to have Hughes Electronics' DirecTV offer AOL via satellite to its 7 million customers. The resulting product will be called AOL TV. Microsoft, of course, is still pushing...
...subscriber. That was in addition to the $1.5 billion breakup fee Comcast collected to walk away from the deal. (Comcast's strengthened position may come in handy later as Exhibit A when AT&T has to prove to regulators that it has not rebuilt the old Ma Bell monopoly.) AT&T sold to Microsoft--a company whose Internet strategy is looking increasingly piecemeal--$5 billion of preferred stock and an opportunity to supply some of the operating systems and software for the set-top boxes and servers that AT&T will have to deploy to support its vast new digital...