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...next to last act would be Simpson himself. And at least one defense watcher argues that letting him testify is a win-win situation for Cochran. If O.J. does well and nails an acquittal, Cochran is a hero. If he fumbles and gets convicted, Cochran can say it was because Simpson took the stand against his advice...
...Russians have requested that we don't hit their space station this time as hard as Apollo hit Soyuz back in 1975," says TIME's veteran aerospace watcher Jerry Hannifin. But that may not be an easy task. As the two spacecraft hurtle toward theirscheduled 9 am docking over Central Asia tomorrow, pilot Hoot Gibson will have to contend with a much more difficult linking than in the Apollo-Soyuz maneuver. "The Apollo and Soyuz capsules approached each other straight on," notes Hannifin. "This time, Mir will be stationary while the shuttle comes from underneath. The inertia...
...more than three times as many as did five years earlier. Nor has Microsoft lowered prices to drive competitors out of business and then raised them to gouge consumers. "Microsoft cut prices when it didn't have to," says Jesse Berst, publisher of the industry newsletter Windows Watcher. "It's something that Apple could have done if they'd had the courage...
...Microsoft represents the best of ourselves or the worst," says Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus and a longtime Gates watcher. According to G. Pascal Zachary, author of Showstopper! (Free Press; $22.95), a book about the making of Windows NT, the company is the model of a new, postmodern corporate culture, perfectly suited to survive in an era of rapid technological change. The Microsoft way, says Zachary, writing in Upside magazine, is neither purely individualistic (the American approach) nor consensus driven (the Japanese style) but a third way he calls "armed truce," in which employees are encouraged to challenge everybody, even...
...watcher who treats a sitcom like a good book, or even an above--average movie! One cannot make the mistake of taking these characters seriously or having any emotional involvement at all. You're not meant to cringe at their discomfort, but instead to laugh out loud at their idiocy...