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Even assuming PeopleSoft fends off his offer, Ellison may yet have the last laugh. This is the era of consolidation in computerland. Companies like IBM, Microsoft, Yahoo and USA Interactive have spent billions of dollars snapping up smaller competitors. Others, like Palm and Handspring, have tried to stave off the hungry advances of these giants by merging. Now it's the turn of Ellison's realm, the complex world of business software, to go through some serious cyclical slimming. The outcome will be crucial to owners of widely held tech stocks and people who use their products, which includes just...
...says of his Hulkdom, "I'm very mindful of being thrust upon the public." But for the moment, no one recognizes him poolside in Malta. He seems to cherish this last phase of anonymity. When asked what he would like fans to know about him, he says with a laugh, "As little as humanly possible...
...date, Valdez will pack her bags and camp out at the home of family friends near the hospital. "It sucks. It's not the same as being in your house, with your friends and your family," says Valdez, a petite woman who is otherwise quick to laugh...
...moneyspinner. An assassin (TIME agreed not to publish his name) claims that cops knew he was under contract with a political party. He says he was treated like a "VVIP" whenever he visited a police station. "The police wouldn't dare touch us." He had to laugh when the police took credit, four-and-a-half years ago, for one of his own kills. "He was a hit man, too, sent down from Lahore by a rival political party to get me," the assassin recalls. Except that the assassin tracked the newcomer down first, gunning him down at a crowded...
...Yusuf's close ties to the Americans proved to be his undoing. On March 22 he was removed as CPLC chief. "The rumor was I worked for the CIA," says Yusuf. "That's a laugh. The Americans won't even let me have a visa after all the help I gave them." Because of terrorist threats, Yusuf travels with an extra car of bodyguards and lives in an ultra-secure penthouse as he struggles to win back his old job. He has enough money to leave Karachi, but he likes the place. "Any other city with 14 million people...