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...Bill Gates listened--perhaps this time a bit too closely. In hearings two weeks ago, the combatants conducted an intricate dissection of the injunction's language. Jackson's prose demanded that Microsoft stop forcing vendors to include "any Microsoft Internet browser software (including Internet Explorer 3.0, 4.0, or any successor versions thereof)" on their Windows machines. O.K., Microsoft lawyers asked Justice, pointing to a long, obscure list of .DLL and .EXE program files, then which ones belong to Explorer and which to Windows95...
Castro has always said, "Revolutionaries never retire," but he has been planning for the inevitable "biological transition" that will bring a new leader to that book-lined office. His brother Raul remains the designated successor. But starting perhaps half a decade ago, he began systematically replacing old revolutionary comrades in the government with young, educated technocrats. Today many party leaders, National Assembly members and Fidel's own top advisers are under 40, a form of insurance that dedicated followers of his ideals are prepared to carry on his revolutionary mission...
...incident is] hard to describe, but I can understand after being a president myself why he was so stressed," says Stoll's successor, Marion B. Gammill '95. "Not that excuses what he did. Ira said those things. They came from his head...
...selection of a successor to Pusey engagedthe attention of the University in 1970-71. WhenDerek C. Bok was selected as President, TheCrimson was ready to tell Harvard everything therewas to be known about the Law School Dean and thereasons for his selection...
...executives knew, of course, that Seinfeld would not last forever, but they were hoping to have another year to nurture a successor hit. The network made an extraordinarily generous deal with Bright/Kauffmann/Crane, the creators of Friends and Veronica's Closet, to develop a comedy about a single mother. With the schedule in flux, that show will have a tougher time finding an audience. Fortunately for NBC, it still has the rest of the season to experiment. It could build up Frasier or 3rd Rock by putting them after Seinfeld. Meanwhile, Just Shoot Me, a modest success starring Laura San Giacomo...