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...century's Builders and Titans [TIME 100, Dec. 7]. How much more difficult is it to succeed in business when you start out poor and uneducated? And how much more difficult when you're female and black? It is only after putting Madame Walker's accomplishments in the context of the harsh realities she endured and overcame that one can truly appreciate the magnitude of her success. VIVIAN RANDOLPH, PRESIDENT Madame C.J. Walker Enterprises Inc. Indianapolis...
...different group context," Faiz P. Shakai '02 says. "We're all going through reading period here. We're all in the same boat," he said...
...also find a revealing look at Hillary Rodham Clinton by Karen Tumulty and Nancy Gibbs, with exclusive behind-the-scenes photographs by Diana Walker. It helps, I hope, put not only the First Lady but also her marriage and her husband into a human context. For a while, as you may have read (we're not great at keeping secrets), she was our leading contender. Her strength and her almost surreal ability to assert her dignity were remarkable to some and mystifying to others. She also, for many months, helped determine how the nation framed the scandal debate by portraying...
That's just one example of how Microsoft has become its own worst enemy in this trial. Another, of course, is Gates' famously evasive videotaped testimony. Until now, Microsoft has rapped the feds for taking "snippets" of its CEO's comments out of context. But on Monday, Gates changed tack, accusing Boies of asking deliberately "ambiguous questions" and then sandbagging Microsoft by airing the tapes. If he'd known they were going to be played in court, Gates said, he would have "smiled a little...
...legal team now has the rights to the Gates videotape--and can show it in its entirety at any time. "If they want to make it available for rent at Blockbuster, they can do it," confirms Georgetown University law professor Bill Kovacic. "But I doubt there's much context there that will help." All of which may explain why Boies is still smiling--no matter how many states are on his side...