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...Elizabeth Dole's decision to join the fray is one of immaculate conception. One morning before Christmas, the tale goes, she woke up and began thinking seriously about running for President. After eight years as president of the American Red Cross, she had tied the place up into a neat little bundle, securing the blood supply and the fund-raising stream, coping with one disaster after another. She began to wonder, What's next? And so she called aides and said, "Let's prepare, in case...
...seven days they searched for Gurule while I wrestled with guilt both about my deranged fantasies and about the mid-seven figures I was hoping to get for this really neat screenplay I'm working on about his escape. I felt a little better when I found out a co-worker and several other friends were secretly rooting for him too. Even my grandmother, who I don't think is rooting for me, was pulling for that wily Gurule...
...might be tempted to dismiss this project as a glib summary of a century in boxed-set form--yet another cynical ploy by the record companies. But the 100 neat and tidy two-CD packets of the Great Pianists are a noble exception: truly great indeed...
Today, in a neat twist of fate, Jobs is running Apple again, an interim chairman who seems to be in no hurry to find a replacement. Brought back in a kind of Hail Mary play by a company running out of time, Jobs staged a remarkable turnaround. He signed a peace pact with his nemesis in Redmond, killed off the Apple clones, launched an eye-catching ad campaign ("Think Different"), streamlined his product line, slashed inventory and turned a surprisingly large profit. Suddenly, Apple is cool again, thanks to a sexy, blue, Internet-friendly machine--the iMac--that is almost...
...photo shows Bill as a rapt young teenager, watching his friend Paul Allen type at a computer terminal. Allen became a co-founder of Microsoft. The child Gates has neat hair and an eager, pleasant smile; every last detail says "pat me on the head." He entered Harvard but dropped out to found Microsoft in 1975. Microsoft's first product was a version of the programming language BASIC for the Altair 8800, arguably the world's first personal computer. BASIC, invented by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz in 1964, was someone else's idea. So was the Altair. Gates merely...