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...Arafat?s unique status as a national symbol that despite that absence of consensus, Palestinian leaders ranging from moderate liberals such as Hanan Ashrawi to the hard-eyed bombers of Hamas have concurred on the role of the aging revolutionary, who spent his last three years living under virtual house arrest at the Ramallah compound where his organization now plans to inter his remains, as the symbolic personification of their national aspirations. Responding to efforts last week by Arafat's wife, Suha, to restrict access to her husband during his last days alive, Ashrawi, who had often publicly differed with...
...past two years, the U.S. stock market has been at a virtual standstill as the Dow Jones industrial average has hovered at around 10,000. Investors are distrustful of corporate earnings reports and skeptical about Wall Street's projections...
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (for PlayStation2) sounds like a game that glorifies delinquency, juvenile and otherwise. And it does. But it's also an extraordinary experiment in interactive storytelling. You play a playa,a Snoop-style gangbanger wandering through a vast, absurdly detailed virtual version of California. There's no hard-and-fast narrative. You go where you wish and do what you like, and the game makes things interesting accordingly. This is something that's possible in no other medium. San Andreas combines the richness of art with the freedom of real life to create something entirely...
...sending an update from its headquarters in Arlington Heights, Ill., to game operators around the world. It's a frightening figure, Ditton says, when you consider the multitude of things that could go wrong with the programming, affecting everything from a game's 3-D images to its virtual sportscaster...
Johnson & Johnson felt much the same way in the mid-1990s about its new business selling stents, the tiny devices used to prop open clogged arteries. With a virtual monopoly of the billion-dollar business, J&J alienated many of its cardiologist customers by charging high prices and failing to develop a new generation of product. When competitors like Guidant and Boston Scientific came out with their own stents, customers were eager to abandon J&J (which has admitted being slow to innovate but denies that its pricing was at fault). Says Sydney Finkelstein, a professor at Dartmouth's Tuck...