Thursday, December 31, 1998
Gates opens windows to his life, virtually
With his wunderkind gloss tarnishing rapidly under the pressure of an anti-trust trial and a string of hostile biographies, Bill Gates has embarked on an image-building blitz donating millions of dollars to good causes, waxing lyrical on fatherhood and generally doing spontaneous, regular-guy, things.
Gorbachev goes broke
Russia's financial crisis claimed its most famous scalp when Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, announced that he was flat broke.
Remains of the revolution come home to Cuba
The remains of ten Leftist guerrillas who fought alongside Ernesto `Che' Guevara have come to central Cuba, where Cubans by the thousands lined up to view the small coffins.
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