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Lucky for Bill Gates that he's the world's richest geek. Already saddled with three trials about existing Microsoft software, Gates now has to defend an operating system at the heart of what's supposed to be next year's Big Thing. Two days after the trustbusting main event got going again in Washington, Danbury-based Bristol Technology Inc. opened its own suit against the Redmond giant, claiming that Gates & Co. put the Seattle screws to their software business by withholding vital information when Bristol licensed MS's Windows NT system. "Now it's official -- all of Microsoft...
...head of a $200 million empire that includes interests in music publishing and real estate. He and Gloria--who were recently ranked No. 31 on the Forbes list of the world's richest entertainers--live in an opulent oceanfront mansion where Picassos hang next to paintings by Cuban artists. But Estefan isn't slowing down. His latest venture is a deal with Studio U.S.A. to produce sitcoms and made-for-TV movies. Says Studio U.S.A. president Ken Solomon: "Emilio is really one of the leaders in the world in bringing Latin performers to the mainstream...
...Baltimore fan. The Orioles have the third highest payroll ($80 million) in major league baseball. And they have the American League's worst record. That's the kind of capitalist contradiction that Fidel Castro loves to exploit. Dirt poor but sports crazed, Cuba boasts one of the world's richest lodes of baseball talent--and proved it in Baltimore, as its stars savaged Oriole pitchers for 18 hits. (Mercifully, the Cubans, who use aluminum bats at home, had only a month to train with wooden ones...
...Cambridge has the worst [vocational] educational program in the state. We have the richest bio-tech city in the state, and yet we don't have a bio-tech program at the high school," he says...
This week Hussein Ismail Jaber, a banquet manager at the Jerusalem Renaissance Hotel, father of three and a Muslim, is one of the richest men in Israel. For a week. For the fourth time. Because Jewish law forbids possession of certain grains on Passover, Jews who own bread or bakery companies sell their inventory to a Gentile for the holiday. The Sephardic and Ashkenazic chief rabbis sell it all to Jaber, who gives the Finance Ministry a check for $25,000 as a deposit for food products worth about $50 million. Jaber says he does it as "a gesture...