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...question is: Just how persuasive was Gates? To hear the Microsoft boss tell it, he was doing his old pal Andy a favor: "Intel was wasting its money by writing low-quality software that created incompatibilities," Gates says with a shrug on the video. Grove?s account sounds a little more ominous: "We basically caved," he told Fortune magazine later that year. "Life?s too short" to introduce software that Microsoft doesn?t support, he added. Throw in a 1995 memo written by Intel VP Steven McGeady, the government?s latest witness, in which "Gates made vague threats of support...
Cook soon fell on hard times, and Barksdale was forced to lay off half his 110-person staff. He scrambled to find a way to save the rest. One Sunday in church he collared an old pal who worked at a Memphis start-up called Federal Express that was trying to figure out how to automate the transportation unit--getting computers to route the couriers, trucks and airplanes. Barksdale's pitch: FedEx could buy Cook's data-processing department lock, stock and mainframe and sell services back to Cook. Within a few years, Barksdale was chief operating officer of FedEx...
Police say it was McKinney, 22, and his quiet-man pal Russell Henderson, 21, both high school dropouts, who met Shepard in Laramie's Fireside Lounge. "After Mr. Shepard confided he was gay, the subjects deceived Mr. Shepard into leaving with them in their vehicle," reads the Albany County court filing of first-degree murder, kidnapping and aggravated robbery charges against McKinney and Henderson...
...studying with your friends in Quincy, you don't have to call on the outdoor phone to be let in." What they really mean: "With your new, improved, universal slidey card, avoid all the embarassment of waiting outside for a late-night rendezvous with your Quincy House hookup pal." Too bad they don't offer the access to Wellesley students...
...wonder. No President has mentioned the American People as incessantly as President Clinton. (We talk about him an awful lot too.) He presents himself by turns as the American People's benefactor, slave and towel-snapping locker-room pal. In his rhetoric the American People, for their part, serve alternately as a goad, an inspiration, a shaming device and, of course, an excuse. "I need to go back to work for the American People," he notoriously said on Jan. 26, and then refused to discuss the Lewinsky scandal for almost seven months. Too busy. The American People's work really...