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Microsoft no doubt hopes to galvanize others into investing. FCC chairman Reed Hundt believes the deal will prompt the cable industry and then the phone companies to up their investment in interactivity. "For the past year and a half the cable industry has been trying to explain to everybody what they have and how valuable it is," says Hundt. "No one was listening until Gates gave his stamp of approval...
McVeigh is a slender reed on which to hang so much human grief and loathing. His opacity--the blank look punctuated by occasional bursts of defense-table bonhomie--is especially revolting to those who sense that he fancies himself a prisoner of war on trial for collateral damage that he sees as the inevitable consequence of combat. That makes people want to see him dead, but it may be the best reason not to execute him--to deny him his bid for martyrdom, to keep him earthbound and watch him slowly wither, not a hero to his cause but just...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Christian Coalition has tapped two naturals to follow Ralph Reed: Randy Tate, a 1994 Gingrich House soldier, will replace Reed as director, and former Reagan Cabinet member Don Hodel will assume Pat Robertson's post as president. The message: to thine own self be true. "The last shred of the non-partisan fig leaf has been destroyed," says TIME's Laurence Barrett. "Both of these guys are even more partisan, and more explicitly so, than Reed." Putting Reed's torch in such hands suggests the coalition is ready to concentrate on its natural constituency -- white, Protestant, conservative...
Icon of Harvard Square and the only 24-hour eatery in the area, The Tasty is endangered by plans to renovate the crumbling Reed Block building that it calls home, now abandoned by The Wursthaus, which closed in October after 80 years...
...building's owner, Cambridge Savings Bank, has commissioned a second architect to make stronger efforts to preserve the building's historic feel. The CHC will make a final decision on renovation plans tomorrow, and sources involved in Harvard Square commerce say there's a very good chance Reed Block could be made a historic landmark, helping those fighting to preserve The Tasty...