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...more than a year, two of Silicon Valley's most outspoken maverick CEOs--Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems and Larry Ellison of Oracle--have been promising to turn the PC industry on its ear with a revolutionary machine they call the network computer, or NC. This stripped-down, easy-to-use communications device would cost less than $500, plug seamlessly into all kinds of computer networks and lure millions of technophobic home users onto the Internet. Best of all, as far as McNealy and Ellison are concerned, it would be based on a new programming language, Java, that promises...
...moderate Morella is a G.O.P. maverick who voted against seven Contract with America provisions, three more than any other Republican; she consistently gets higher ratings from the liberal Americans for Democratic Action than from the American Conservative Union. Mother to nine children--six of whom are her sister's, raised by Morella after her sister died--Morella is also co-chair of the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues...
Even before they heard Dole's feisty rhetoric, officials at the D.N.C. were spooked enough to go into damage control. On Friday they asked the Federal Election Commission to begin investigating the matter. Then they suspended John Huang, the maverick D.N.C. vice chairman who had not just drummed up Lee's contribution but made a Washington career out of raising small fortunes, $4 million to $5 million this year alone, from his network of Asian contacts. Two years ago, he made a smart landing at the Commerce Department, where, as a trade official, he cultivated a group of Asian businessmen...
With that pen stroke, Yeltsin had hired the tough-talking maverick paratrooper for two jobs: the President's top national security adviser and secretary of the Kremlin's Security Council, which coordinates foreign and domestic policy. "This is not just an appointment," Yeltsin told reporters. "This is a union of two politicians and two programs. I will now make corrections in my own program in the areas of military reform, national security and the battle against crime and corruption...
BONNIE ANGELO, who has written for TIME for more than 25 years, including eight as London bureau chief, returned to that city to interview the maverick chairman of Virgin, Richard Branson. She flew Virgin Atlantic Airways, naturally. She also drank Virgin Cola--for research purposes only--and hung out on Times Square at odd hours to see how the new Virgin megastore was doing. "To do a business story that's fun is such a marvelous experience," says Angelo, who was inducted last year into the Journalism Hall of Fame in her home state of North Carolina. "There...