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...Internet could undo all that. Gates had been warning his top lieutenants that the Net could change everything about the way people used computers, perhaps even the fact that they needed an $89 copy of Windows to make their machines work. But he hadn't quite figured out Microsoft's proper place in the new terrain, and the company's thus far tentative market initiatives reflected that indecision...
There is a grim economy to the way a terrorist works, born of a dark arithmetic: fear rises exponentially. One whisper can undo a city. The very group that gave us the word assassin--a secret band of loyalists gathered around Hasan i Sabbah, the "Old Man of the Mountain," in Persia 900 years ago--mastered the basic law of terror: that even the smallest threat can ripple out to touch those a thousand miles away. Iago gave us the evidence: plant uncertainty in a shaky mind, and suspicion spreads like blood across a handkerchief...
...Bailey ran down Frankie Fredericks of Namibia and Ato Boldon of Trinidad to become the world's fastest human--ever. He also helped erase the Seoul stigma of Ben Johnson, who like Bailey was a Jamaican running for Canada. "I'm not trying to do what Ben did, or undo what Ben did in Seoul," he said. "My name is Donovan Bailey...
...part, the Likud finally and officially buried old threats to undo the peace agreements that established Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. According to the party's new platform, a Likud government would "honor international agreements" and "recognize the facts created on the ground by the various accords." Netanyahu, having said he would never meet with Yasser Arafat, was compelled to concede that he might...
...City may go down as its Waterloo. Said to be the nation's most ambitious and expensive magnet plan, Kansas City's effort is unlikely to be matched anywhere. In fact, the high court's action has accelerated the pace at which cities across the country are moving to undo mandatory desegregation (see map). And the federal judiciary, which long staked its authority on the enforcement of desegregation orders, appears eager to depart the field. Chris Hansen of the American Civil Liberties Union in New York City observes, "The courts are saying, 'We still agree with the goal of school...