Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Where does the case go now? The lawyers and the appeals courts will have their say. But ultimately, the most important actor in this drama will be Bill Gates. The Justice Department showcased just how central he was when it made the strategic decision to focus at the trial on his actions--and to make his video deposition and e-mails the public relations centerpiece of its case. Microsoft is Gates' company, and he'll decide how it responds to this latest challenge...
...intellectual and athletic. They were all competitive, but Bill most of all. "The play was serious," his father recalled. "Winning mattered." For Gates, business is a game, and what makes it superfun for him is that it's superserious. He is a brilliant strategist with great bandwidth, as they say in Redmond, and he works hard to hire the brightest, most dedicated and most competitive associates. He created an atmosphere at Microsoft in which crushing the other guy was a crusade...
...keeping with Vatican policy, the directives proscribe abortion and a host of reproductive services, including birth control, morning-after pills and sterilization. "We can't say we're opposed to abortion as a profound human evil and then go out and build an abortion clinic," says Father Michael Place, president of the Catholic Health Association, which represents more than 2,000 Catholic facilities in the U.S. "We can't be other than...
...would be willing to provide it. She and her husband have been in another type of polyamorous relationship--what could also be called an "open marriage"--for 28 years. They have never lived with their other lovers, but they each have long-term relationships outside their marriage, which they say has remained healthy. Many friends still don't understand--"to them it's just adultery with chocolate sprinkles," says the 51-year-old husband. "But it's more." The couple have a son Matthew who's 21 and in college. Matthew thinks that what has happened to April, Chris...
...does a handstand. In the drama behind the film, Lions Gate, an independent distributor, opens Dogma this week after successful screenings at festivals in Cannes, Toronto and New York City. "Now we can put the rest of the stuff behind us and start fretting about the box office," Smith says. "I'm hoping that when people see the film, they'll say, 'Oh, it's not the movie that flips the bird at the church. It's actually kind of devout...