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...even though it was Clinton who approved it. "Dick always worked the dark side," says Rudy Moore, a Clinton aide in Arkansas, "so Bill could move toward the light." In a series of exclusive, wide-ranging interviews with Time, Morris put it this way: "He shaped me into his tool. He looked at his life and saw what he needed, and I became that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONVENTION '96: WHO IS DICK MORRIS? | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

Here's where things get interesting, as Netscape and Microsoft are building their browsers around rival development tool kits, or platforms. Netscape is paired with Sun Microsystems' Java, a programming language that has won the fierce but possibly ephemeral allegiance of Silicon Valley's software jocks (the Netscape/Java alliance, a giddy Sun executive hyperbolized last year, "is the last great hope to stop Microsoft world domination"). Java is starting from scratch, though, and it could take painfully long for its adherents to produce high-quality applications. Microsoft's Active-X platform, by contrast, supports both Java and the venerable Visual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FIRST WEB WAR | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

...think the way a cop thinks. after a bomb has gone off, you plunge first into the horror itself. Then your fury is directed at Congress. For more than 20 years, and again last week in the wake of Atlanta and Flight 800, Washington lawmakers have denied police a tool that could immeasurably help them solve the worst crimes of terror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE POLITICAL INTEREST: WITHOUT A CLUE | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

...true, by law the U.S. is required to impose sanctions." If the FBI is serious about finding these scamps, the agents better be ready for some awkward situations. After all, says Nelan, "The biggest leakers in Washington are Bill Clinton and his senior officials, who consider leaks a tool for explaining their policy." -->