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...masterly stroke, allowing Microsoft to wrap itself in Java's aura while at the same time puncture Netscape's over-inflated stock balloon. The market reacted strongly. Sun's stock price jumped sharply; Netscape's fell more than...
Gates moved quickly this year to embrace the Net, although it sometimes seemed he was trying to wrap Microsoft's long arms around it. He launched the Microsoft Network and--over the objections of America Online, CompuServe and the U.S. Justice Department--bundled it with Internet-access software in Windows 95. He dropped his resistance to a number of de facto Internet standards, including Sun Microsystem's Java. Meanwhile, he began securing high-profile content to put on his own network, luring commentator Michael Kinsley from cnn to start an online political magazine and purchasing the Bettmann Archives...
...cable network in search of an identity. Its mix of anonymous stand-up comics telling jokes about gender wars over toothpaste caps, reruns of old sitcoms like McHale's Navy, and a smattering of new programs (like Sports Monster, an unfunny spoof of sports wrap-up shows) was hardly exciting. Comedy Central should have been hip and edgy--a Seattle to the broadcast networks' Des Moines. Instead it fell Grainbelt flat...
...thankful for living in a place where winter gets good and cold and you need to build a fire in a stove and wrap a blanket around you. Cold draws people closer together. Crime drops. Acts of kindness proliferate between strangers. I have been in Los Angeles on a balmy day in January and seen the glum faces of people poking at their salads in outdoor restaurants, brooding over their unproduced screenplays. People in Minnesota are much cheerier, lurching across the ice, leaning into the wind as sheets of snow swirl up in their faces. Because they feel needed...
Harvard's best chance to exploit the extra space came in the third period on a rare four-on-four situation. The Crimson did not let such an opportunity pass it by. Jason Karmanos followed up on a Henry Higdon wrap around shot to tie the game...