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...work of his only pupil, Frederick Edwin Church (1826-1900). Descended from six generations of Yankee ministers and merchants, patriotic and deeply religious, Church inherited Cole's belief in a style of landscape suffused with "a language strong, moral and imaginative." His paintings--mostly of the Hudson Valley and vistas of South American grandeur--were greeted as both religious icons and triumphs of observation, fusing piety and science in one matrix. Church hit a peculiarly American vein of feeling: Romanticism without its European component of alienation and dread, a view of the universe in which God was in heaven...
...crazy enough to go cold turkey, say U.S. intelligence officials. The FBI, which is investigating the Mega case, has grumbled privately that Israeli espionage agents routinely prowl California's Silicon Valley and Boston's Route 128 corridor for high-tech secrets. "The Israelis were bumping into very nearly every one of our friends and allies doing the same thing," says a former FBI counterintelligence agent. In a report last year to the Senate Intelligence Committee, the CIA identified Israel as one of six foreign countries with "a government-directed or -orchestrated clandestine effort to collect U.S. economic secrets." Senior intelligence...
...program, with DiCaprio as host, Blaine traipses across the country, performing his repertoire for a broad sampling of America's melting pot: old Chinese men in San Francisco; gangbangers in Compton, Calif.; Valley Girls, Wall Streeters, the Dallas Cowboys. "The secret, hidden message," he says, "is that all people are the same...
...begun to look toward posterity. For the better part of 18 months he flirted with the idea of buying troubled Apple Computer, a deal that fizzled last week when Ellison said he was backing off, at least for now. Instead, Valley insiders say Oracle, with close to $1 billion in cash on hand, is considering a rich joint venture with Korean conglomerate LG Electronics. Both are ambitious deals, carefully calibrated to morph Oracle from a corporate-software provider into a consumer-electronics powerhouse. Says Evan Bauer, a vice president at GIGA Information Group, a Connecticut consulting firm: "Larry...
...warrior reputation as much as his collection of Samurai helmets. Yet the scope of his ambition for network computing--as well as some mellowing that has come with age--appears to have left Ellison ready to cooperate. Already Oracle has begun to form an anti-Microsoft axis with Silicon Valley neighbors Sun Microsystems and Netscape, which Ellison says may have the perfect NC interface with its browser. Inside the firm, coo Lane now runs day-to-day operations, leaving Ellison free to think big, strategic thoughts. The calculus is simple, according to Bobby Cameron of Forrester Research: "Ray Lane...