Word: secret
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last week looked bad for Bill Gates ?a judge ordered him to hand over the heretofore secret blueprints for Microsoft Windows?this week may be even worse. For starters, he?ll be spending at least two days with a pack of federal prosecutors, who will grill him on Wednesday and Thursday about Microsoft?s alleged anticompetitive practices. He?ll also spend some of the week batting back accusations that the firm?s new Windows 98 operating system was ?undercooked? and rushed to market before it was ready. Though the software has been selling briskly, critics have been compiling an increasingly...
...stain on Monica's bedeviling blue dress is DNA or something considerably less organic, like Reddi-Whip -- and that means Ken Starr probably knows too. TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon says this is one tidbit that Ken Starr's suspiciously leak-prone operation won't be disseminating. "A secret like this will be hard to keep, but this time he's going to try his best," she says. "He wants to wait until after Clinton testifies, and surprise...
...hard to get the attention of the Secret Service. Write threatening letters to the White House. Or do as Russell Weston did--keep telling people you want to harm the President until someone calls the police. If all goes by the book, the Service is alerted, agents are dispatched, and the maker of the threats is interrogated and evaluated...
...under surveillance. Instead the agency compiles a file on the individual, entering the name into a computer. And unless more threats are made--or the person shows up for a White House tour--no more action is taken. The vast majority of the Russell Westons who come across the Secret Service radar screen every year--and there are dozens--are never more than names in a database reserved mostly for cranks and crazies...
Weston fits another profile the Secret Service is used to encountering. Potential assassins, especially delusional ones, often change targets, making it difficult to predict who is in danger. Only after Arthur Bremmer shot and seriously wounded presidential candidate George Wallace in 1972 did the Service learn--from Bremmer's diary--that the would-be assassin had stalked Nixon before turning to the less protected Wallace. So it was with Weston. He made threats against a President, but he took his gun to Capitol Hill...