The skinny: When ailing DEC charged Intel last May with infringing on its speedy Alpha chip, pundits laughed, calling the suit a desperate act. Sure, the Alpha was hot, but why would Intel, ruler of microprocessors, need to steal its innards? (Analysts estimate that Digital ships 300,000 Alpha chips a year, while Intel moves a total of 65 million of its brainy items.) Now the last laugh belongs to ....
‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ Starring: Harrison Ford, Shia LaBeouf, Cate Blanchett, Ray Winstone, Karen Allen, John Hurt, Jim Broadbent Director: Steven Spielberg Story: Plot details are still sketchy, but we do know that Indiana Jones (Ford) goes up against Soviet agents in a quest for the Crystal Skull. He’s assisted by former lover Marion Ravenwood (Allen) and a young man named Mutt (LaBeouf). Blanchett plays Soviet Agent Irina Spalko....
The more recent of the two books, The Mutual Fund Masters (354 pages. Probus. $22.95), features Griffeth’s interviews with 20 top money managers. Griffeth’s premise is that mutual funds are a lot like movies – they’re directed by people with distinctive styles, so individuals should choose to invest in a fund managed by, say, Ken Heebner or Ralph Wanger much like they’d choose to go see the latest Woody Allen flick....
Of course, the first 100 (or so) days are the most critical, because they set the tone for the next four years. At this point in 1977, the President’s Brother whom Clinton is most often compared to–Billy Carter–was appearing as the star attraction at a truckers’ and citizens band radio convention, in line with his clear short-term goals (get into the papers as much as possible) and longterm objective (cash in)....
As Leonard conducts his concise and knowing tour of the pop-music business in Los Angeles, he makes the same joke work that made ““Get Shorty’’ so funny. The nicest, most honest man in sight is Chili, an ex-mobster who just stumbles into legitimacy. But Leonard freshens the formula with enough new twists and baroque characters–like Elliott, the gay half-Samoan rock bodyguard who wants to get into pictures–that you forget you’ve more or less read this one before....
One year later, Lake Pare Place is thriving. Valerie Robinson, 29, who fills catalog orders for Spiegel, moved in with her daughter, lured by a larger apartment. Roderick Hill, 26, a Loop office worker, scored a small apartment–and, to the envy of his friends, escaped his parents’ house. Even more encouraging is sketchy evidence that some of the poorest of Lake Parc’s residents have begun to follow neighbors like Robinson and Hill into the work force....
When White House aides were drafting speeches for the D-Day trip they did some research on Blythe’s war record. It turned out that Blythe had spent time in Caserta, Italy, not far from the American cemetery where Clinton spoke last week. Recalling his father, Clinton said, ““We are the sons and daughters of the world they saved.’’ Though Blythe didn’t see combat, the White House hopes his service will dispel the skepticism some vets feel toward his son, who avoided the draft....
Yaari was already famous for amazing breakthrough interviews with Egypt’s Sadat, Morocco’s King Hassan and, of course, King Hussein of Jordan—before there was any talk of diplomatic ties with the Jewish state. His advice was simple. The journey since has been anything but. Nonetheless, Yaari turned out to be right. The only way to break down stereotypes about Jews was to show up at the doors of leaders whose border officials were allergic to any passports that had been stamped in Israel....
According to a new report from the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA), the man had decided to discharge himself from the hospital after being treated with nuclear medicine. Because of the radioactive isotopes involved, he was advised to only use a toilet. But he ignored his doctor’s orders and relieved himself in the yard. “Communication issues with the patient were identified as a factor in this incident,” the report indicated....
Morales’s political rise represents yet another diplomatic headache for the United States in Latin America. Like Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Argentina’s Nestor Kirchner, who has endeared himself to his countrymen by talking tough to the International Monetary Fund, Morales frequently rails at the IMF and Washington for their “neoliberal” economic policies. Morales calls for a “fundamental redistribution of wealth.” If elected, he tells NEWSWEEK, he vows to reverse many of the free-market reforms that his country has adopted....
Then-coach George Karl said this week his team almost added Clyde Drexler in a midseason blockbuster deal and claimed he wanted the trade to go through before team president Wally Walker got cold feet. Instead, Drexler went to Houston and won a championship. Seattle lost in the first round that season but perhaps could have made a deeper run with the offensive support of Drexler. The next year, when Michael Jordan beat the Sonics in a six-game Finals series, the team could have also used Drexler as a difference maker....
Prop 36 is drawing supporters from across the ideological spectrum: from civil-rights leader Jesse Jackson to Republican Senate candidate Tom Campbell, who says the drug war amounts to “Jim Crow” justice for minorities. Financier George Soros and two other wealthy businessmen have pledged $3 million to push the cause. They are also financing antidrug-war initiatives in five other states. Soros, long a supporter of relaxing the drug laws, sees it as a “human rights” issue, according to former Princeton professor Ethan Nadleman, his principal adviser on the matter....
Berlusconi wants Italy to be “the best friend America has,” but he also wants to shake up his neighbors. A conservative among socialists, he’s no admirer of the European welfare state. Rather than regulate, he prefers free markets. His first overseas visit will be to the White House, and Bush is rumored to be making an Italian stopover next month. Some see Berlusconi’s victory as a major step against a European superstate and especially the euro....
An analysis of several specimens conducted by Ana Costa—a marine researcher with the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science at the University of Miami—and colleagues found that the new subspecies is smaller than other common bottlenose dolphins. In a study published in the Journal of Mammalian Evolution, the scientists named the new subspecies the Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP) bottlenose dolphin, or Tursiops truncatus nuuanu in scientific terms....
I’ll explain. According to William Poundstone, 52, author of “Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren’t Fair” (to be published early next year by Hill and Wang), George W. Bush reached the White House as a beneficiary of our reliance on a demonstrably flawed system of registering voter preferences, known as plurality voting. In this scheme the winner among multiple candidates running for a single office is the one who gets the most votes....
The fight is over whose committee–Kennedy’s Labor and Human Resources or Moynihan’s Finance–has primary jurisdiction over the president’s health-care reform legislation. Routinely, a bill with major revenue impact would be referred to Finance. But White House insistence that employer-mandate health-care premiums are not taxes has given Kennedy an opening to claim jurisdiction for Labor and put Moynihan in the awkward position of declaring that the premiums are taxes by another name....
Not hardly. Deion Sanders–‘Niner defensive back, Cincinnati Reds’ center fielder (in nonstrike weeks), shuck ’n’ jive boxer, New Jack hip-hopper and, of course, Mr. P-R-I-M-E T-I-M-E, his own serf–are very much alive, flourishing and absolutely lighting up the city by the bay. He’s there by his own hand. For months he peddled his considerable wares on the free-agent market, then chose the 49ers-a staid, conservative organization not known for sass and flash....
Before Antonia Bird’s Priest comes to its highly charged conclusion, all Greg’s notions of sin, of his vocation, of the Roman Catholic Church’s role in the community and of his own identity will be subject to painful re-examination. During confession a 14-year-old girl (Christine Tremarco) reveals that her father is molesting her. Horrified, Greg wants to intervene but can’t – it’s forbidden to break the seal of the confessional. Burdened with her secret, he then must grapple with his own....
