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Jordan had no illusions about leading the Wiz to a title this year. The plan was to shape them into the team he wanted and use millions of dollars in savings on the team's salary cap--Jordan makes only $1 million--available next year to sign a topflight free agent. Jordan will play one more year, the last last hurrah. But the Wizards have progressed so far that perhaps they will shop for a trade this year that will get them deeper into the play-offs. The Atlantic Division, where the Wiz play most of their games, is ripe...
...Anthony LaPaglia plays him in Lantana, police detective Leon Zat is as harsh and abrupt as his surname. He is several things: a tough, angry cop, impatient with a dismal caseload; a middle-aged man, jogging through his chest pains, trying to get back in shape; an unhappy husband glumly trying to find some magic in an affair that's all grim haste and guilty furtiveness...
...change is in the air. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has already replaced ISI chief Lieut. General Mahmood Ahmad, a Taliban sympathizer, with a progressive moderate, Lieut. General Ehsan ul-Haq, and sidelined another general who helped shape Pakistan's recent Kashmir policy. Last week, under mounting pressure from the U.S., Pakistan's government promised to shut down the activities of foreign extremists in Kashmir. Ilyas, it seems, may soon have to find some other way to feed his family...
...always a revolution. But even when he's wrong, you can be pretty sure that whatever he and Apple are doing will quickly be copied by the rest of the PC world. So what if you don't have a Mac? Pay attention: what Jobs does is often the shape of things to come...
...glow of the infamous Jobs "reality distortion field" while reporting this week's cover story. Quittner's take: So what if you don't have a Mac? Pay attention to this new iMac, the heart of Apple's "digital hub" idea, because what Steve Jobs does is often the shape of things to come. Talk with Josh about the new iMac and the future of Apple on Thursday...