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Talk to Microsoft and AOL about the need for standards, and you get the distinct impression of being stuck in the middle of a high-minded schoolyard row. Both sides talk about the gangs they're forming to find common ground in the messaging industry, and if the other guy wants to come over and join our gang, well, that's fine with us. (For the record, AOL has hooked up with Apple, Sun, Novell and Real Networks; Microsoft's gang of strange bedfellows includes Excite, Infoseek, PeopleLink, AT&T, Yahoo and Prodigy...
...Jack Gargan, a retired financial consultant, as party chairman, but then swaddled the endorsement in protestations that he wasn't telling the fiercely independent delegates how to vote. The room, which had sparked with applause at other points in the speech, went silent as Gargan sat in the last row staring at his shoes. I thought old Jack was done for, but Saturday there was a proliferation of Gargan buttons. Many of those who were undecided said the Body had won their vote...
...artists who know how to move as well as sing and directors and designers with a knack for knocking the rust off tired masterpieces. Add to this the special pleasure of watching opera in a theater small enough that you can see Rigoletto's eyebrow twitch from the back row of the balcony, and you get productions so bold and vivid that they make you remember why you fell in love with opera in the first place...
...then it was Mr. Dylan, all by himself. His chosen repertoire for the night was all his vintage basics, dressed up with enough electric guitar and soul to make Hendrix smile from above. He performed everything from "Tangled up in Blue" to "All Along the Watchtower" to "Desolation Row". But the most touching moment was Dylan's "Not Dark Yet", which was the sole post-Blood on the Tracks song, from his most recent album, Time Out of Mind...
...early adolescence left her Nebraska hometown and began posing as a boy, Brandon Teena. As Brandon, she won the hearts of many girls but died tragically, killed by two male friends who were furious that they'd been duped. Interviews with her killers (one is on death row) provide a chilling portrait of intolerance...