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Going once, going twice... House and Senate Republicans late Tuesday came up with the refund they?ve always wanted ? a 10-year, $792 billion smattering of tax cuts that combines the House?s across-the-board dreams (in this version, a one-percentage-point cut in every bracket) with the Senate?s targeted goodies (relief of the marriage penalty, increase IRA contribution limits) that make the measure sound more like one of Bill Clinton?s than Newt Gingrich?s. And that?s exactly why maybe ? just maybe ? some of this begging-to-be-vetoed bill might survive the summer...
Livent, meanwhile, careened into bankruptcy. Most of the company's assets--theaters in New York City, Toronto and Chicago, along with the rights to current shows and projects in development, including a new version of Pal Joey and The Seussical, a musical based on the works of Dr. Seuss--are about to be acquired by SFX Entertainment, a U.S. company with lots of concert and theater business but little of Drabinsky's creative vision or panache...
...desktop--sell like crazy and leave the rest of the industry playing catch-up. The iBook, available this September, morphs iMac's elegant, curvilinear design and Life Savers colors into an affordable portable (see chart) with a bunch of minor innovations and one major one: AirPort, a PC version of the cordless phone. AirPort's snap-in card and UFO-shaped "base station" (a $400 optional package) allow up to 10 users to swap data and surf the Web wirelessly from a range of up to 150 ft., putting Apple at least a few fiscal quarters ahead of its Windows...
Good thing I did. Dreamcast can be, well, a dream: in graphics, sound and especially speed, it's a quantum leap ahead of the 64-bit consoles. If anything, it may be a little too brisk. Take Sonic Adventure, a revamped version of that Sega classic Sonic the Hedgehog, which the company is marketing as the quintessential Dreamcast game. The visuals are 3-Delicious--Sonic's footprints appear in the sand as he zooms by, while the sun glints in the lens just as it should. But dismal attempts at midair loop-the-loops left me cursing at controls that...
...side, which can be irksome if you do happen to have a couch and want to sit on it while playing. But Sega's machine passes the all-important test: it's a blast to play with your buddies. Just ask my girlfriend, who spent hours testing the Dreamcast version of Mortal Kombat with me--and dished out a thorough whupping. Man magnet? More like man trap...