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...report on Bill Gates, Walter Isaacson provided insight that has given us a new perception of the man [BUSINESS, Jan. 13]. Gates, apart from his lack of emotional empathy with mankind and his ruthless business prowess, is the intellectual thinker for modern-day society. He knew what he wanted and was determined to achieve it. Instead of being a victim of circumstance, he turned events to his purpose. That's why he is today the ceo of Microsoft Corp., the world's richest man and perhaps the modern-day Napoleon of the technological world. But I wonder, Is Bill Gates...
...office buildings and parking lots. In addition, coal mined at the Grand Staircase would have to be hauled to the nearest port--in this case Los Angeles--in as many as 400 truckloads a day over highways that in some cases do not yet exist. Building such a modern-day Silk Road might cost up to $100 million...
...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 and moral values. WALTER JEFFKO Lunenberg, Massachusetts...
...Bean, J. Crew and Victoria's Secret are all but drained of hiking boots, chamois shirts and silk tap pants; we read in the newspapers of waiting lists for $4,000 handbags and $75,000 automobiles. And from every TV set, newspaper and magazine the purveyors of the modern-day bazaar hawk every imaginable consumable, potable and disposable...
...American boarding schools are falling apart, we need not waste our tears on them. Hicks, in his tired defense, cannot help romanticizing the past glories of the American boarding school. He himself seems convinced that the boarding school's best days are over. His caricature of modern-day adolescence is overblown and unconvincing, while his recommendations for the future are nearly nonexistent. We should, without attacking today's teenagers, let the American boarding school bow out gracefully...