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Which is why it's such a shame that Steve Case and Bill Gates aren't better buddies. The AOL and Microsoft bosses have spent the past week in a mini-war over this hugely popular software, which analysts consider the second most valuable piece of digital real estate in the world, after the Windows desktop. Because AOL is the undisputed king of IM, Microsoft (along with a host of other IM providers) is trying to gain access to the 40 million folks using AOL's free IM software--and is occasionally succeeding. AOL, claiming concern for users' password protection...
...shame, though, and especially here, in this city. Outside the Beltway--which, as I learned my first day, is not a figure of speech but an actual highway that circles the city--the media figures probably seem as big as the politicians they cover. Sam Donaldson vs. Dennis Hastert--is there any doubt who's bigger? But walking the sidewalks of this city, with its overarching civic feel--statues, columns and marble, with its shifting tectonic plates of power, it is clear that the public officials, the lawmakers and those--in crisp suits, loud shoes and big grins--who would...
...visions of a hedonistic and machinistic future undeniably at hand, Kubrick bowed out just before things start to really go awry. Kubrick rivaled Freud in his ability to probe our collective unconscious. His final masterpiece, Eyes Wide Shut, is a testament to his creative genius. It is a shame that our culture has become desensitized to violence, while human sexuality is still as taboo as in the days of Adam and Eve. COLIN MCDONALD Waterbury, Conn...
...more personal note, he worked out four times a week and by some accounts ate a full box of Metr-X bars for breakfast each morning, resulting in a perfectly sculpted body, with abs that would put any shirtless celebrating member of the U.S. women's soccer team to shame and with power that could knock the wind out of a production assistant during spirited office-time slam dancing, the latter thesis of which I had the displeasure of confirming. Needless to say, any fear I had of failing at my task multiplied considerably when I realized that this individual...
That's really a shame. I had such a history with books, and then it looks like the future for them and me is a question mark...