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Nowhere did the zeal for a winner work to Bush's advantage as in California, a state where the G.O.P. has factions inside factions. In April 1998, Bush went West to campaign for gubernatorial hopeful Dan Lungren in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Silicon Valley. At one event, about a dozen of Lungren's biggest backers practically cornered Bush during a private conversation and pressed him to run. Bush demurred, in deference to Governor Pete Wilson, who was still considering another run at the nomination. But he winked. "I want to be your second choice," Bush told them, tipping...
Every epochal moment in Pirates of Silicon Valley (June 20, 8 p.m. E.T.), TNT's smart new movie about the birth of the PC industry, comes complete with a similar backdoor irony. Pirates' writer-director Martyn Burke (who co-wrote HBO's caustic The Pentagon Wars) plants his story in the fertile ground of the baby boomers' art-vs.-commerce conundrum. "Steve Jobs' garage is the starting point of an entire culture," Burke says. "It got going in the early '70s, when the campuses were being occupied by antiwar protesters, but these guys--Jobs, Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Wozniak...
...after squiring the VII around for a few weeks, I'm more in love than ever. For years the notion of an easy-to-use device that connects man to Net--from anywhere--has been the stuff of geek dreams. Now, at long last, vaporware has been made silicon. On my VII, I've received e-mail from my wife while riding under Manhattan ("Stop showing that thing in the subway!" she wrote. "You'll lose it...") and whined at editors while on the railroad whizzing to work. I've read real-time Long Island Expressway traffic updates while sitting...
History looks backward, not forward, so there are those for whom the jury is still out. Legions of computer whizzes in Silicon Valley are certain that they're remaking history even as we speak. Maybe they are. Patrick Steptoe, the British doctor who created the first test-tube baby in 1978, has certainly changed the history of thousands of families. And who is to say that one of those test-tube babies will not change history? What new Gavrilo Princip is yet to be born...
...might not remember that the silicon-oxygen bond is one of the strongest there is," he said...