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...prospect of such low prices has spawned even more consortiums eager to be top dogs in the satellite-Internet communications business. The most ambitious venture is Teledesic, founded in 1990 by deep-pocket investors including Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal (with a 13.7% stake), and cellular pioneer Craig McCaw, who is the chairman and co-chief executive. Motorola, after a frosty initial reaction to the project, dropped its own system, Celestri, and joined in with $750 million for a 26% stake. Once jeered as the most starry-eyed start-up ever, the $9 billion Teledesic project...
...prospect of Clinton's testimony and another couple of thousand pages of pornography horrified them. "I don't want to look," says Virginia Democrat James Moran. "I feel dirty when I read this stuff. I feel as though when someone walks into the room it's something I should throw under the desk." South Carolina's Ernest Hollings told fellow Senator Joseph Biden: "Joe, I can't even talk about this with another...
...prospect of total war, with all its collateral damage, was enough to bring some of the leaders up short. By Thursday afternoon top Democrats began working secretly on the escape plan that would force the President to accept some severe punishment short of impeachment, in return for some protection against prosecution once he leaves office. Selling that deal would have to involve the help of the permanent graybeards on both sides--men like Bob Dole, who has put in a call to Clinton already, Bob Strauss, Colin Powell, George Mitchell--men who have the moral horsepower to haul their crankier...
...only an early-season game, but the Harvard women's soccer team's home game against Yale tomorrow might be the biggest game of the year. And the prospect of revenge makes it that much bigger...
...political career he has been happiest and most energized during a campaign, when he was asking for love and approval, and never more so than when he was asking for it against the odds. After his re-election in 1996, his friends wondered how he would face the prospect of never again knowing that thrill. They needn't have worried. Bill Clinton has found a way to get back into campaign mode after...