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...Rise of Joel Klein The Justice Department antitrust tyro's first shot across Microsoft's bow (over the bundling of Windows 95 and Internet Explorer) served notice to Silicon Valley that there's a new, tech-savvy sheriff in town. Next in his scope: the looming battle over Windows 98 and a closer look at microchip colossus Intel...
...tale begging to be made into a TV movie: strapping Red Army soldier defects to enemy land to become a hockey star. There he meets a pretty, (very) young Russian tennis tyro with long, golden hair. He goes on to win the Stanley Cup. She goes on to win the U.S. Open. Oops. That's how the telemovie would have played out; but in reality, although Sergei Fedorov, 27, was part of the Stanley Cup-winning Detroit Red Wings, Anna Kournikova, 16, was beaten by Irina Spirlea in the second round of the Open last week, as he watched...
...only tyro from outside the U.S. Appleby, who is 9th on the money list, is from Australia. At least four members of captain Seve Ballesteros' European Ryder Cup team are under 30: British Open runner-up Darren Clarke of Northern Ireland, 28; Lee Westwood of England, 24; Thomas Bjorn of Denmark, 26; and Padraig Harrington of Ireland, 25. "This youth thing is definitely catching on," says Kite...
Righteous people making miserable the lives they would save--that should be fun. But tyro auteur Alexander Payne cannot shape or propel his own good material. He lets things dawdle when briskness would be a boon, and defeats the gung-ho efforts of Dern and other worthy actors. Citizen Ruth means to evoke such '40s comedies as The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, but it is less Preston Sturges than depressed and turgid...
...apparel business peddling jeans, mostly around New York State. In 1984, with backing from Hong Kong tycoon Mohan Murjani, he set up his own shop. Hilfiger led with his chin, with ads in which he compared himself to Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein. The industry laughed--here was a tyro pushing rip-off designs and affecting to be an immortal. But Hilfiger was dogged. He came to recognize the flair in black street style, recombined it with his preppie instinct and found a niche in fashion no one can laugh...