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"This is quite a Christmas present," said Harlan Nelson, then mayor of Albert Lea, Minn., on that December day in 1990 when he learned that a closed factory in the town would reopen. "Fairy tales do come true!"
But as the Justice Department begins Week Six of its hard-hitting case, Microsoft's blithe confidence is starting to resemble a room-size mainframe computer that operates on punch cards: it's more than a little out of date. Executives from Intel, Apple and other high-tech leaders have...
Jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman is touring to promote his new album, Timeless Tales (for Changing Times).
Celebrity best sellers like Andrew Weil's 8 Weeks to Optimum Health (Knopf; $23) and Jean Carper's Miracle Cures (HarperCollins; $25) may promise more than they can deliver, but they do contain healthful hints. If you want to add adventure, read Mark Plotkin's Tales of a Shaman's...
While reading Billy Dead, the reader is trapped with Ray's skewed vision of the world and, what is worse, his sometimes hideously rambling narrative. To pull a novel off with a hero or heroine essentially isolated from society, the protagonist has to be vivid and interesting, which is why...