
Saturday, December 5, 1998
Microsoft gears up for Net television race
Microsoft Corp. has moved ahead in the emerging high-tech battle for control over television digital set-top boxes by announcing a deal with one of the major set-top box companies.

Jackson to moonwalk on Wall Street
The US pop star, Michael Jackson, plans to sell royalties generated by the Beatles, Bob Dylan and other musicians, sources said on Thursday.

Clinton, Saddam and Pinochet on trial
Man is by nature a political animal, said Aristotle, who argued further that the public life of a `good' society must reflect the nature of its members. Many of the great Macedonian's assertions -- that the slave is `naturally' inferior to his master, the female to the male, the `barbarian' to the Greek -- now seem absurd.

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