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CATANZARO, Italy: When 7-year-old American Nicholas Green was murdered two years ago by highway bandits as he slept in the back seat of his parents' rented car, his family reacted in a stunningly gracious manner. In a move which won them Italy's highest civil honor, the Greens donated their son's heart, liver, kidneys and pancreas for transplant, saving seven lives and securing their place in the affections of this organ donor-poor country. But the ultimate compensation -- justice -- eludes them still. A court has acquitted the two men charged in the shooting death, agreeing with...
...Duma is not likely to impeach, and Yeltsin can dissolve the body at any time. But the vote movement reflects the increasing frustration of a country facing enormous economic and social woes, where everything is put on hold waiting for Yeltsin either to govern in his previous forceful manner or step aside. "The basic stuff gets done," says Quinn-Judge, "but no major initiatives have been implemented." The economy continued to shrink in 1996 and the Kremlin's bold tax-collection initiative has run out of steam. Yeltsin has been utterly unable to keep his promise to pay the back...
...browser to serve as a platform to run applications. "In other words," says Reback, "if Netscape is successful, you won't need Windows or a Microsoft operating system anymore." On the other hand, if Microsoft is allowed to embed its Web browser into its operating system in a manner that maintains its monopoly, Reback warns, "where will it stop? They'll go on to bundle in content, their Microsoft Network, financial transactions, travel services, everything. They have a game plan to monopolize every market they touch...
...Microsoft, and she is active in charity work and on the board of Duke, where she studied computer science as an undergraduate and then got a graduate degree in business. Like Gates, she is smart and independent. Like his mother, she is also friendly and social, with an easy manner of organizing trips and activities. But she zealously guards her privacy and doesn't give interviews...
Dumbfounded, I watched my fellow conference participants shout out the failings of the U.N. A girl from Texas A&M said the U.N. was a grossly inefficient bureaucracy which took our money while spending it in a manner contrary to vital U.S. interests. A boy from Florida State agreed...