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Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO The Revenue Question: Windows and Office rule. It needs another big revenue generator The Search Strategy: Bing is spending $100 million to get you to try its "decision engine" The Perception Problem: No one ever loved Microsoft. Bing could help soften its tech-demon image...
...first talked to Robert Novak 25 years ago, when I was a newly hired staffer at the Republican National Committee. After introducing himself, he handed down Novak rule No. 1. "In my world, you have a choice," he said. "You can be either a source or a target." I gulped and wisely chose the former. Thus began a lengthy friendship. Novak, who died of brain cancer on Aug. 18 at age 78, loved to dish. But he also pushed me to look around corners at what was really happening. He was a factor in Washington for nearly 50 years, first...
...rival Europe's. In the 19th century, vin de Constance, a Cape Town dessert wine, was the A-list tipple of its day, served to Napoleon on his deathbed and celebrated in print by Charles Dickens and Jane Austen. But before the end of apartheid in 1994, white-only rule and a system of paying black workers in highly alcoholic runoff had left a pronounced sour taste in international markets. Postapartheid, South African wine has reformed - there are growing numbers of black customers and vintners - but its quality has come under fresh attack. In April 2008, critic Jane MacQuitty stunned...
...rehabilitation facility in Malibu, Calif., says the drug presents inherent obstacles to mainstream appeal, including its lack of street availability and its need to be administered by a needle. While Hollywood's troubled abusers have yet to start showing up at his doors with propofol problems, he doesn't rule it out. "Whenever a drug gets attention like this in the media, people want to try it," says Sack. "It takes a while for things to break out. Sometimes they never do. But there are always people who abuse drugs who are looking for the next big thing...
Just a p.r. gag or does a new electro-Trabi have a chance of rising from the cold ashes of history to rule the roads in Germany? That remains to be seen. But the dream of an electric autobahn is clearly taking hold in Germany. The German government last week unveiled a "national development plan" to put a million electric cars on the road by 2020, pledging to provide $715 million from the country's economic stimulus package toward funding for research and development. Part of the plan involves developing a network of electric filling stations along German roads, with...