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...acquired the nickname Long Wait. Gates recently warned that we would have to cool our heels until 2006 before we would see it--five years after the release of Windows XP--and even that date isn't certain. "We'll ship it when it's ready," says Neil Charney, director of product management for Windows. One reason for the delay is that Gates' "trustworthy computing" plan has pulled programmers off Longhorn to work on fixing Windows XP, patching the kinds of security holes that led to record-breaking viruses like the Blaster worm...
...political platforms of Stephen Stills—they just don’t realize it. His riffs play over and over again on “classic rock” stations, but his name rings bells only when grouped with those of David Crosby, Graham Nash and sometimes Neil Young. And while listeners may whistle the tune from “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” the smash single Stills penned, they don’t realize that they’re singing the catch phrases of radical politics. Take another listen: after seven-odd minutes of folky...
...That’s what happened—I bumped into these people,” Stills said, in reference to Crosby and Nash, with whom he formed “Crosby. Stills & Nash” in 1968. The group added Neil Young shortly thereafter, and the band found instant fame playing in front of 400,000 people at the Woodstock Music Festival in just their second live performance...
...Luke Perry (Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Beverly Hills 90210) are earning sneers in When Harry Met Sally at the Theatre Royal. Coming this summer: Matthew Lillard (Scream, the Scooby Doo films) in David Lindsay-Abaire's Fuddy Meers at the Arts Theatre; Alicia Witt (Vanilla Sky) in Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things at the New Ambassadors; Holly Hunter in Marina Carr's By the Bog of Cats; and Dianne Wiest in Kathleen Tolan's The Memory House. Oh, and Spacey begins his directorship of the Old Vic in the fall with Dutch playwright Maria Goos' Cloaca...
...Associate Vice President for Higher Education Policy, remembered O’Mary from his days as an undergraduate work study research assistant in the University President’s office. O’Mary took on a job for Lawrence H. Summers that hadn’t existed in Neil Rudenstine’s tenure: Special Assistant to the President...