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None of these links were essential, so I'm not too worried about Microsoft's playing favorites--yet. But since the company is a convicted monopolist, at least in the eyes of a U.S. district-court judge, you have to wonder where all this will lead...
...With all that money at stake, no wonder the selection process has a questionable past. In 1998 evidence surfaced to indicate what many Olympic insiders have been whispering for years: that bid cities like Salt Lake City, host of the 2002 winter games, had showered I.O.C. members with gifts-fully paid shopping trips for spouses, college scholarships for children and even cash in envelopes for members. Chastened by the scandals, the I.O.C., long a notoriously secretive body, publicly scrubbed itself clean. Members were expelled. New regulations were drafted forbidding members from visiting candidate cities, imposing a limit on gifts...
...finest album may be 1996's Bug Music, a thrilling exploration of the jumpy, angular and surprisingly substantive music written for, among other things, 1940s cartoons. On his most recent disc, last year's A Fine Line, he brought together works by Stephen Sondheim, Ornette Coleman, Roy Orbison, Stevie Wonder and Giacomo Puccini. He was hoping to show, he wrote, "that a song untethered from its stylistic conventions could be heard anew." In fact, hearing familiar music as you've never heard it before is an experience that comes with nearly every Don Byron album...
...talking heads can't explain the polls' giving Bush a 56% approval rating, down just 3% from before the recount. No wonder Bush, who has become the Garbo of politics, doesn't bother talking to Big Media. The rumor mongering left him irritated enough last week that he interpreted an innocuous question as an attack. When a TIME reporter noted that his popularity was proving the pundits wrong, Bush became testy. "Who sent you here?" he asked...
...later claimed that he had been misquoted--and no wonder. Scientists who know anything about cancer are exceedingly cautious about using the C word. That's partly because it too easily raises false hopes and partly because doctors are increasingly convinced that a cure is not the only way to beat cancer. Instead, experts believe, by throwing a series of monkey wrenches into the cancer cell's machinery, the new therapies could transform cancer from an intractable, frequently lethal illness to a chronic but manageable one akin to diabetes and high blood pressure. Says Dr. Leonard Saltz, a colon-cancer...