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...base commander at Minot (N.D.) Air Force Base clearly demonstrate her outstanding performance. Comments from 1996 showed that she displayed "maturity and responsibility above her peers." Other remarks say, "Lt. Flinn is an outstanding officer and aviator--her performance stands head and shoulders above her peers...incredibly sharp, professional warrior. Intelligent, aggressive and dedicated...stellar performer in all aspects of officership and aviation." She was also rated during aircrew-procedures testing as earning a "perfect 100% score." Her evaluator commented, "Best performance of aircrews on testing I've ever seen." She was also awarded "Distinguished Graduate...
...indiscretion, the Clinton Administration plans to show this week's U.N. Earth Summit that green is now the color of dollar-denominated economic booms, not just campaigns to halt global warming. In a welcoming speech strangely at odds with his onetime reputation as the Clinton Administration's fiercest environmental warrior, Vice President Al Gore conceded that action on global warming is needed, but steered clear of specifics. "It's a big capitulation to industry," says TIME's Dick Thompson. "What's driving the U.S. economic expansion is greenhouse gases." Case in point: the Senate's recent refusal to ratify...
...corporate manifestation of that warrior spirit is Oracle, the software-and-consulting giant Ellison has built over the past 20 years. Oracle enjoys a virtual hammerlock in the immensely profitable business of organizing and storing information in electronic databases. In the past fiscal year the firm squeezed more than $600 million in profits from revenues of $4.2 billion by helping firms like Pacific Bell and American Airlines track billing records and airline reservations. The company's market value is $28 billion--more than that of Time Warner or H.J. Heinz--and it has enjoyed better than a 30% annual growth...
Winning, though, will probably mean becoming a team player, since it's unlikely that Oracle can unseat Microsoft alone. That will be a new role for a man who cherishes his lone-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...
Friendship, however, does little to distract Ellison from every billionaire's primary preoccupation: the man in the mirror. Just as Oracle reflects Ellison's warrior spirit, the company's future will mirror his dreams about where technology is headed. And his wonderment on that subject seems livelier than ever. "I'm endlessly curious as to how far I can push technology and how much technology can change our society," he says, an urgent note creeping into his voice. "All sorts of interesting questions need to be asked. Can Oracle become a more important company than Microsoft? I'm curious...