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Below the surface, Time Warner isn't exactly a happy family. While its individual divisions are highly profitable, the company has been a cauldron of intrigue that has claimed many top-level managers caught up in power struggles. Says a victim: "Time Warner is in too many things. It has become unmanageable. Just the span of control is impossible. Ted is going to have to bring some focus to all that...
...following year when the NCAA expanded its playoff pool from 32 teams to 64 teams that the Ivy league was granted an automatic bid. Harvard's intense non-conference challenges throughout the 1980's were helpful in gaining Harvard and the other Ivy League schools respect as a top-level programs. By 1993, Harvard had demonstrated to the NCAA's that it was able of compete on a national level with teams that offer player scholarships...
...BOLSTERED TOP-LEVEL decision making as well. A new Treasury review board, consisting of ATF officials and one person each from the Customs Service, Secret Service and Justice Department, must approve ATF's most sensitive undercover cases. An internal directive obtained by Time, dated May 5, defines such cases to include investigations "of possible criminal conduct by any foreign official or government, religious organization, political organization, or the news media." Says Magaw: "Anybody who questions why we're doing it differently now than we did before need only look at Waco...
...Teng-hui, whose government is unrecognized by most of the world thanks to China's strenuous efforts to keep it isolated. Could Lee visit a onetime ally that cut off relations 16 years ago? The issue seemed strictly academic as long as Washington upheld its policy of barring top-level Taiwan officials from the country. Then last week, Bill Clinton backed down: under pressure from Congress, the President granted Lee a visa. The hot potato dropped...
SPOOFING: This is a technique for getting access to a remote computer by forging the Internet address of a trusted or "friendly" machine. It's much easier to exploit security holes from inside a system than from outside; the trick is to gain "root" status, the top-level access that the computer's administrator enjoys. With root status, a hacker could install a password sniffer or bogus software, like a "back door"-a secret return path into the machine. Mitnick was able to break into Shimomura's Fort Knox-like computer using a spoof...