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NETSCAPE ESCALATED ITS BATTLE WITH Microsoft for the soul (and wallet) of the Internet last week by quietly offering Web surfers a preview of a superbrowser, code-named Atlas. The program is designed to compete with Microsoft's Explorer, which Net users have labeled slow and short on appealing features. Though downloading Atlas was rough going (more than an hour on a 14.4 modem), patient users were treated to a program stuffed with new applications, part of Netscape's plan to outdazzle and outperform Microsoft. Below, a look inside Atlas, available at www.netscape.com...
...pretty fair idea of what they would and would not print; since their names, often literally, went on the finished products, their reputations were as much at stake as those of their authors. But once publishing transformed itself into a business of battling behemoths, the clubby, gentlemanly code of ethics grew harder to enforce or even, in some minds, to justify. Do publishers still put a stamp of approval on their books, or are they now merely commercial conduits between writers and readers...
Eisner told a meeting of ABC affiliates that the poor February showing was "unacceptable" and vowed it "would never happen again." To insiders, that was code language for "Heads are going to roll." Eisner and Ovitz are "evaluating the team that's in place every day," says a well-placed ABC executive, who adds that the current development season, which will determine next fall's schedule, is key. Eisner has been reading some pilot scripts himself (his favorite: Spin, a DreamWorks sitcom starring Michael J. Fox as a big-city deputy mayor). Thought to be most vulnerable among the existing...
While the culture of Adams House might seem to conflict with the strict moral code followed by Mormons, Rich said that randomization has made that a "non-factor...
Dole does speak in public as if he's translating a passage from Morse code into Gregg shorthand, but I don't think that has much to do with his having grown up on the Plains. After all, Senator Arlen Specter was also raised right there in Russell, Kansas, and when Specter reflects on some incidents in his life--say, his bullyboy cross-examination of Anita Hill--he must suspect that he might have been overburdened with the gift...