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...DIED. JEF RASKIN, 61, known as the "father of the Macintosh," who, as Apple Computer's 31st employee, envisioned a truly user-friendly computer and in 1979 founded a team to create it, sparking the personal-computer revolution; of pancreatic cancer; in Pacifica, Calif. He named the project Macintosh (after his favorite apple) and headed it until 1982, when he had a falling out with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and left the company--two years before the first Macintoshes hit the stores...
Back in 1996, Justin, his twin brother Jef and their friend Larry Kersten were laboring at a Dallas dotcom that had been dangling the prospect of shares before its underpaid employees. But the Sewells and Kersten were low on the ladder, and the promised stock never arrived. A dark mood ensued, Justin recalls, "especially after we started to see other employees becoming fantastically wealthy very quickly...
...major airlines complain a one-bag rule will be too difficult, tell them to call Ryanair, the low-cost, European airline that is already using a new system. According to Jef McAllister, Time's London Bureau Chief, who flew the carrier recently, it's a welcome change. Last weekend McAllister took Ryanair from London to Brussels and on the outbound leg had to follow a rigid one carry on bag per person rule (and no big ones). On the way back, things go more serious: there were no carry-ons allowed at all. "I had to check my computer...
...Jef McAllister: The IRA doesn't have to actually start decommissioning; it just has to say something that makes people believe that it's really going to start. There doesn't appear to be a chance of that happening, for several reasons. If they are going to do it they've left it late. The IRA's leaders hate seeming to be pushed into anything by the Unionists, and I don't think they want to rescue Trimble in particular. If they're going to deliver a concession I think they'd do it later, when they could say they...
...London Labor supporters are telling Blair to back off," says TIME London bureau chief Jef McAllister. "He rigged the rules to keep Livingstone out of the Labor nomination despite being the democratic choice of the party's membership, and the rank and file now look set to deliver Blair a painful message about democracy. And because it's a vote for a not particularly serious position, Labor supporters feel they can vote against the government without strengthening the hand of the Conservatives." Still, the slap-down has to sting Blair, who invested a considerable amount of his own political capital...