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...waterfront. Meanwhile, the city--one of the nation's poorest--struggles to fund its schools. Hartford is not the only city with such skewed priorities. A new stadium is not a panacea for urban renewal. With so many more pressing needs, it is a wonder that cities continue to pay the ransoms demanded by team owners...
Gentlemen, we have a deal. AOL and Netscape announced Tuesday morning that their anticipated marriage would go ahead -- after a full month of secret negotiations -- and that AOL would pay $4.21 billion. That's $210 million more than expected -- which, considering Netscape's dire financial straits, is no small potatoes. Netscape shareholders get a healthy 0.45 AOL shares per Netscape share. The company's CEO, Jim Barksdale, gets a seat on AOL's board. And with Sun Microsystems helping out on the server software front, cyberspace has a coalition large enough to contain the mighty Microsoft...
...Pay no attention to the Israeli behind the curtain. Yasser Arafat opened the new Gaza International Airport Tuesday in a fanfare of publicity, declaring it an important milestone on the road to Palestinian statehood. "But once the emotion has died down and Palestinians realize the airport is another Israeli checkpoint, the response will be different," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad...
...Lewinsky in an emotional meeting in the Oval Office. After breaking the news that "their intimate relationship" would have to end--temporarily, as it turned out--the President returned Fanjul's call; Lewinsky left. The two spoke for 22 minutes. The topic: a proposed tax on sugar farmers to pay for the Everglades cleanup. Fanjul reportedly told the President he and other growers opposed such a step, since it would cost them millions. Such a tax has never been passed...
...extra $100, you can try DVD's pay-per-view cousin, called DVX. But don't get too attached yet. "Some of the concepts aren't bad," Kevin Hause, a senior analyst at market researcher IDC, says with faint praise. "In the end, the best thing about it may be that the player will still play DVDs after DVX dies...