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Thomas Doran, who served on the Rota until he was made Bishop of Rockford, Ill., understands both sides. American Catholics live "with a divorce mentality," he says, and are bound to be affected by it. But they are also subject to Catholic canon law, which has always strictly carried out Jesus's teaching against divorce. Doran and his colleagues are in the middle. They would like to stem the annulment tide. "But the trouble," he sighs, "is that saying no is never an easy thing...
Friendship, however, does little to distract Ellison from every billionaire's primary preoccupation: the man in the mirror. Just as Oracle reflects Ellison's warrior spirit, the company's future will mirror his dreams about where technology is headed. And his wonderment on that subject seems livelier than ever. "I'm endlessly curious as to how far I can push technology and how much technology can change our society," he says, an urgent note creeping into his voice. "All sorts of interesting questions need to be asked. Can Oracle become a more important company than Microsoft? I'm curious...
Murdoch is already looking for alternatives to the EchoStar deal. He has held exploratory talks about gaining a share of Primestar, a competing satellite venture owned jointly by several cable companies, including TCI and Time Warner. Last week Murdoch broached the subject in a phone call to Time Warner's vice chairman, Ted Turner (with whom he has been feuding publicly), and had a face-to-face meeting with chairman Gerald Levin. His overtures to link up with Primestar, however, were rebuffed...
Write another hacker book? I'd rather take on the Scientologists. Littman says he's starting to feel the same way. He continues to be intrigued by the subject matter but he thinks the subjects may not be worth the trouble. "If I do another book about hackers, it will probably be fiction," he says. I wonder if even that would help...
...payment so large that it cripples the business defeats the purpose of their settling, although that point seems to be getting lost. Besides, no tobacco chief is going to cut his shareholders' throats. Just how much can the industry afford? Tobacco execs have been mum on the subject. It was the antitobacco side that floated $300 billion, to be paid over 25 years, and even to many of them the amount originally seemed pie-in-the-sky high. Then something interesting happened: tobacco stocks rallied as Wall Street ground down a few hundred pencils figuring out that the entire...