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...Jobs sees it, the world is entering the third phase of personal computing. (For those of you who haven't been following along, the first era was all about utility--folks using their thinking machines to do word processing, run spreadsheets, create desktop graphics and the like. The second phase was about wiring all those machines together on the Internet.) Now that we're all interconnected and productive, we're ready for the next great era: people using computers to orchestrate all the new digital gear that has steadily crept into their lives...
...also knew better (after last January's debacle about those dangerously high surpluses) than to play policymaker, limiting his politically mine-able comments to one about looming deficits helping nudge up long-term interest rates (score one for Tom Daschle), and one about looming tax-cut phase-ins providing needed economic stimulus (and one for Bush...
...fall of the house of Enron has reached the political phase...
...military war would be limited in its first phase to Afghanistan, as Powell had argued. There would be a massive aerial campaign, starting as soon as ships and planes could be put into place. As Tenet had proposed, CIA operatives and a handful of military commandos would go into Afghanistan first, followed closely by the military's special forces. The two armies, one covert and one overt, would work together. White House officials cast the Camp David decision as the most important of the war. "For the first time," said Stephen Hadley, Rice's deputy at the NSC, "America...
...faraway American cities. But only last month, President Jiang Zemin reiterated that squelching social unrest was his top priority. Yet since Jiang's address to senior government officials in late November, the rate of bombings has actually increased, leaving nine dead and scores injured. "This is a new, dangerous phase in the nation's history," says Joseph Cheng, a politics professor at the City University in Hong Kong. "China can no longer contain its growing social inequalities...