Word: powers
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Bill Gates glad-handed his way through the corridors of power in Washington last week. He dropped by the White House for a new-economy conference, where President Clinton lauded him for his "phenomenal" charitable contributions. And he roamed Capitol Hill for meetings with more than 125 members of Congress, including a private chat with Senate Commerce Committee chairman John McCain. The tourists ate it up; the $100 Billion Man attracted movie-star crowds wherever he went. But the whole scene left Microsoft's critics fuming. "It just makes you wonder what for," Senator Orrin Hatch groused. "I certainly hope...
...Microsoft shows no sign that it is relaxing its public relations onslaught. After Gates left Washington, he showed up on TV, the star of his own feel-good ad campaign. "Twenty-five years ago, my friends and I started with nothing but an idea--that we could harness the power of the PC to improve people's lives," Gates says earnestly. The closest he comes to referring to Microsoft's legal difficulties is his send-off: "The best is yet to come...
...jailed and tortured for his activities, and on his release he found work at Radio Haiti. Two years later, he bought the station. Jean's mission was to harness the power of the airwaves as an instrument of social change. He introduced two ingredients to his country's broadcast stew. He brought Creole, the language of the uneducated population, where only French, the language of the elite, had been heard. And with this came news. Real news. In Jean's words, "People decipher the foreign news and digest it in their own culture. For them, information--this became their life...
Bloody hell! My tape recorder is losing power in the middle of an interview with John Lydon. Surprisingly, Lydon volunteers to help out. "Does anyone have some double-A batteries for a rather large vibrator?" he bellows to startled young assistants and executives down the hall. Adding to the embarrassment, we're doing the interview at the offices of the kiddie cable channel Nickelodeon...
...patchwork alliance of anti-IMF demonstrators has brought business-as-usual in Washington grinding to a halt, but its impact insidethe corridors of power may be more diffuse. The federal government Monday gave its employees who work in the vicinity of the World Bank and IMF headquarters the day off, as police continued to battle mostly peaceful protesters challenging the international financial system and demanding debt relief for the world's poorest countries. Heavy-handed policing has, however, for the most part allowed the annual meetings of the bank and fund to proceed unmolested. Still, images of riot policemen dragging...