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Boston sports fans have learned, over the years, to cherish their heroes. Partly because we haven't had any recent championships to celebrate--the last time the Celtics won a championship was in 1986, the Bruins haven't hoisted Lord Stanley's cup since 1972 and our beloved Red Sox are still fighting that Curse--but partly because Boston heroes are of a special breed. Those who we admire most are the ones we take for granted...
...wasted no time slapping down the E.U. choice, asserting that Koch-Weser is a lightweight who lacks the leadership skills to run an organization that acts as the world's financial fire brigade. E.U. leaders call it an another attempt by the U.S. to control the global economy - American Stanley Fischer, the IMF's interim chief, is Koch-Weser's primary competitor for the post. But America is not the only Fischer fan - an unusual alliance of Arab and African countries has thrown its weight behind Fischer's candidacy...
...Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers during the first Clinton Administration, pointed out that the Internet is starting to roll through financial industries as it has through American retailing. Big brokerage houses like Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Merrill Lynch are launching online services against burgeoning upstarts like Charles Schwab and E*Trade--just as Internet-based brokers start to offer subscribers such customized services as video interaction with financial advisers. The losers? Maybe neither. "These new approaches aren't displacing anyone," said Tyson, "but allowing...
Several writers played with the idea of what life online and off-line would look like. TIME contributor Robert Wright explains why we will never log off again, while FORTUNE columnist Stanley Bing does a hilarious send-up of what will happen to today's couch potatoes. (Hint: think mashed.) David Gelernter, professor of computer science at Yale, argues that despite the way our lives are being turned into data streams, we will have as much privacy as we need. Novelist Mark Leyner predicts, tongue slightly in cheek, that no longer will we have to go to sporting events...
...Stanley Bing's most recent book is What Would Machiavelli...