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...Carruth became the first active National Football League player to be arrested for murder. Already there's a second. Ray Lewis, a $7 million-a-year linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens, had plane tickets to fly Monday from Atlanta to Honolulu to participate in this Sunday's Pro Bowl. Instead of boarding a jet, he was arrested and held without bail for the stabbing death of two men outside an Atlanta nightclub Sunday...
Those of us who prepared for Y2K's worst disasters erred on the side of caution. We could afford to be wrong, and we were. But instead of universal rejoicing among those who were fully prepared and those who weren't, the joking has already started--"We told you so." Perhaps. But had we "doom and gloomers" been right, the panic and tears of others wouldn't have been the object of my glee. MILTON JOHN KLEIM JR. Citrus Heights, Calif...
Those of us who were actually over there at that time think showing Dickie Greenleaf lounging around a gorgeous pad with Gwyneth Paltrow instead of standing in front of a pinball machine at a grubby cafe, trying to concentrate on working the flippers while being talked at by a really pretentious guy from Amherst, lacks verisimilitude. At least we hope it does...
...killed by four New York City police officers in February of 1999 as he entered the vestibule of his apartment building and reached for his wallet. And as jury selection begins in the murder trial against those four police officers, the cause of death is not up for debate; instead, both the defense and the prosecution will focus on the officers' intent when they pulled their weapons. There's some damning evidence working against the police: Diallo's body was riddled with 19 bullets of the 41 fired in total. And although the officers say they stopped firing well before...
...this doesn't diminish Microsoft's grip on the Web. "We're not going to go out and buy magazines or other traditional content things," Gates told the WEF crowd. "Instead, I think there's room for a company whose main goal is to create software and allow that software to be a very empowering tool." By keeping its management energies narrowly focused on software, Microsoft could continue its dominance in the operating system and web software markets. In any case, Microsoft's management style, a delicate balance between top-heavy control of product content and maverick innovation...