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Bill Gates may not be waking up in the middle of the night worried about whether Netscape has stormed the Ardennes on the way to Sedan, but I'm sure somebody at Microsoft is worried (probably Steve Ballmer, a college buddy of mine who would wake up in the middle of the night if he bothered to sleep), and is working on a devastating counterattack this very moment.
At MIT, where he had been given a teaching job, he hardly bothered with undergraduates and humiliated graduate students by solving their thesis problems.
Critics wonder why Anita Hill even bothered writing her side of the Clarence Thomas controversy--she adds nothing to her case that hasn't been said before in other books.
And I'm less bothered by the gender stereotyping it entails than by the good cop/bad cop tactics through which it gets played out.
It is not only religious creationists who are bothered by this problem but also some prominent scientists.