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...Microsoft got religion about the Internet in a big way that day," says Release 1.0's Michalski. Product managers went back to Redmond determined to make their programs Internet-compatible. The Microsoft Network, originally intended as a straightforward commercial online service, was redesigned to embrace the Internet and eventually steer it in a profitable direction. Microsoft crafted a strategy by which the company could make it easier for people using Microsoft software to do everyday transactions over the networks-pay bills, order from catalogs, check bank balances. "Our plan," says Myhrvold, "is to make the pie really big and take...
After biding his time for almost 20 years, Jacques Chirac has made it: he has been elected President [FRANCE, May 15]. But now that Chirac is in, he faces a most fearsome task, as he will have to steer a tricky course between the conflicting aspirations of voters who range from youths and unemployed people to the upper class. What's more, boosting growth by hiking wages and limiting the public deficit might turn into a headache. Let's just hope that the political animal's cherished slogan, "France for All," won't become a dead letter. So many hopes...
...days of apartheid when I was with the U.S. embassy in South Africa, I continue to be amazed at the comparative civility of that country's metamorphosis [SOUTH AFRICA, May 8] from the skunk among nations to the butterfly of hope for oppressed peoples everywhere. If Nelson Mandela can steer his nation safely past the tribal bloodbaths that drench the African continent, he will have fathered the eighth wonder of the world...
...region. The resumption of talks marks the first progress in negotiations between Israel and Syriasince they opened the peace process in October 1991. While State Department officials would disclose no details,TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyerreports that each side has accepted a specific set of American guidelines to steer the talks between senior Israeli and Syrian military officers. Among them: thatIsraeli withdrawal from the Golanwould be phased (Syria wants a one-year timeframe, Israel wants five years), and that the U.S. would monitor and oversee the process. Israel and the U.S. would also recognize a Syrian role in Lebanon...
...resumption of talks marks the first progress in negotiations between Israel and Syria since they opened the peace process in October 1991. While State Department officials would disclose no details, TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer reports that each side has accepted a specific set of American guidelines to steer the talks between senior Israeli and Syrian military officers. Among them: that Israeli withdrawal from the Golan would be phased (Syria wants a one-year timeframe, Israel wants five years), and that the U.S. would monitor and oversee the process. Israel and the U.S. would also recognize a Syrian role...