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...copy of the agreement, I practically went into shock." Had any of the parties approached her, she says, she would have informed them, "Well, I'm not interested in selling my property." In part, the stance is just age-old miner's shrewdness: Don't sell your stake unless it's running out. But her rebuff also reflects a century of skirmishing between Western miners and the feds: "We Montanans feel pretty strongly about our love of the land," she says. "It is not American to be trying to wipe out selective private property...
...Clinton Administration disappointed state officials by declaring what it called a compromise: private companies could begin computerizing the paperwork, but the larger task of determining who is eligible for various forms of assistance should be left to government workers. The Communications Workers of America, with 15,000 jobs at stake, was ecstatic; Texas officials say the issue is far from settled...
...most of it free). Behind the scenes, database software (Oracle's, of course) will make all this goodness transparently simple to navigate. On the front end, in Ellison's vision, might be Apple's famously friendly user interface, returning, Lazarus-like, with a cute little beep, to drive a stake through the heart of Microsoft...
...been overshadowed by secular fare, such as reruns of Columbo and Rescue 911. Most startling of all, Rupert Murdoch and Pat Robertson are talking about becoming partners. Negotiations are well along--only "technical matters" remain to be resolved, according to one source--for Murdoch to buy a stake in Robertson's International Family Entertainment, parent company of the Family Channel. Although the principals won't comment, Murdoch reportedly would purchase a 30% share of IFE (which has been valued at as much as $1.5 billion), paying for it with preferred stock in News Corp. That would make Robertson a sizable...
...students and thus there are enough foreigners on campus as it is. While a somewhat valid argument, it ignores the fact that there are other universities out there which, though equally American in nature, have much higher percentages of international students on the rolls, and these places don't stake a claim to "diversity" with even half the zeal that Harvard displays. Since comparable institutions like MIT, Boston University and Canada's McGill University all have significantly greater foreign student populations, in terms of sheer numbers as well as a proportion of the undergraduate population, one must conclude that Harvard...