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...salivating: top executives at Netscape, their chief rival in the browser wars, were caught candidly admitting to strategic--perhaps fatal--business blunders. It would have been "the best evidence," laments Charles ("Rick") Rule, Microsoft legal consultant and former Assistant Attorney General. The loss of this juicy morsel was another rude awakening for Bill Gates: federal courts, it seems, are a lot less pliable than software start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gates in the Dock | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...right before Jerry Springer, and often makes that show look rather pedestrian. It has the obvious mark of executive producer Scott ("the Snot") St. John (that's what he calls himself in the credits), who, with Brian Graden, co-created Studs, the dating-game show that was just as rude and compelling as St. John's new creation. The old show benefited from the wit of host Mark DeCarlo, who should be forced back into the host's chair. But then again, Magic Johnson couldn't mess up this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Change Of Heart | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...rude awakening. Indeed, the next fall, I came across an interview of Ellison conducted in 1955, which focused mostly on Invisible Man. The interviewers did not beat around the bush...

Author: By Sujit Raman, | Title: Academic Truth Is All Relative | 10/6/1998 | See Source »

Sophomore tailback Chuck Nwokocha got a rude introduction to the rigors of carrying virtually a team's entire load out of the tailback position...

Author: By Zachary T. Ball, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Raiders Shine; Crimson Slow | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...makeovers are about surface; bleached hair has dark roots. Skin's polite production might win listeners, but Love's displays of rude beauty, of a sad radiance that seems to come from a place beyond contrivance--those are the moments that make this CD spectacular listening. Just hear her morose, lyrical ramble over Erlandson's spare guitar on Northern Star; or the line in the enchanting Malibu when she breaks the song's sweet spell, growling, "And I knew/ Love would tear you apart/ Oh and I knew/ The darkest secret of your heart." This CD has pop skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Love In Bloom | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

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