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...high-tech group, well funded and selectively high profile, especially on Capitol Hill. But as America's law-enforcement and intel network struggles to adapt, the terrorists too are changing, becoming more diffuse and better armed. As the U.S. has brought more pressure to bear on nations that sponsor terrorism, terrorists have become more elusive, avoiding alignments with any single mentor. These traits apply not only to the fanatical anti-Western cells associated with Osama bin Laden (pictured), which have emerged as possible suspects in the Cole bombing, but also to groups opposed to Middle East peace like Hizballah...
...documents from the Net, fewer copies are being made each year, and sales of machines are nearly flat. At the same time, traditional analog copiers are being replaced by souped-up, hybrid digital devices plugged into a computer network and capable of copying, printing and scanning. At the high-tech, high-output end of the copier business, in a segment Xerox once had all to it- self, competitors have finally caught up. To make matters worse, the company's immensely proud, even arrogant corporate culture rebelled at management's latest attempt to reorganize--a revolt that cost...
...botched reorganization derailed CEO Rick Thoman. An IBM and American Express executive and a Lou Gerstner protege, Thoman was brought in as CEO last year to turn Xerox into a high-tech dynamo. His sin was not his strategy but his sense of urgency. Thoman believed Xerox had to move fast, but the troops were not ready. "There's a fine touch between knowing what to do and when to do it," an insider says of Thoman's leadership. Thoman was replaced by former Xerox chief Paul Allaire...
...opponent, the incumbent Slade Gorton, is old enough at 72 to be grandfather to the average tech geek. Yet he's the best friend Microsoft has in the Senate, where he has tirelessly attacked the Justice Department's lawsuit. The more than $103,000 that Bill Gates and his employees have donated to Gorton is one piece of evidence that he's "the Senator from Microsoft," as he has called himself. "I certainly am proud to have that moniker," says Gorton. He says that on the campaign trail, his zing at the antitrust suit is "one of the best applause...
...limit is a sign that there are some sleeping giants awakening in Washington State. Both Redmond and Real keep a lobbying presence in the "other" Washington. Now they are grasping the importance of having influence directly inside the Senate. Issues like Internet taxation and H1-B visas for overseas tech workers just keep cropping up, and the technology itself moves too fast. "Not many Senators know what a software download is," says Alex Alben, Real's vice president of government affairs. With the tech-savvy Cantwell and Gorton, that's not an issue. What could matter is which software they...