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It was a bang-up way to start a trial. Microsoft's outside-the-courthouse spin team peddled the view that Boies' opening statement was based on "loose and unreliable rhetoric and snippets that were not in any reliable context." But court watchers were already arguing whether Gates' statements were...
For years, of course, everyone from insurance adjusters to credit-card companies has made money swapping consumer profiles like baseball cards. But the Web is bringing this great American pastime to new levels of invasive splendor. Ironically, one of the most attractive features of the Net--its ability to customize...
Roddy McDowall always had a good face for the movies. A crisp combination of British refinement and wide-eyed innocence, the McDowall mien was lovable enough in the '40s for "Lassie Come Home" to launch Roddy as a child star. Later, it was solemn enough for "The Greatest Story Ever...
For all his earnest questing, Lindbergh was capable of a shocking naivete and obtuseness--or, many thought, something worse. He had a sinister habit of thinking in terms of racial superiorities and inferiorities. During the late '30s, he led the isolationist "America First" forces that sought to keep the U.S...
In fact, Nicholas II is viewed by most historians as a mediocre personality, deeply flawed and sometimes sinister. Popular unrest was ruthlessly suppressed by his army in 1905 and again in 1917, until the troops themselves mutinied that February. The Czar presided over a court and political system so byzantine...