July 4, 1999

America Online, confounding skeptics, has emerged over the last two years as biggest, most powerful company on the Internet; an astounding 39 percent of Americans' time on line is spent using services company controls, 10 times share of its nearest competitor, Microsoft; despite success rate, Stephen M Case, AOL chairman, has plan to take company further that includes goal of roughly doubling number of subscribers over next five years, developing new services to lure users to stay on line longer and subsuming all other media by delivering its service on television screens, cellular telephones and other devices, in addition to computers; Case says that 'in the future, AOL is the next Microsoft'; photos; graphs (L)

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Steffi Graf reaches her ninth Wimbledon singles fi

Several women who frequent fashion pages insist they do not fall into definition of 'fashionistas,' despite their intense interst in styles, designers and generally being up-to-the-minute (S)

Some Serbian Orthodox Church priests are demanding resignation of Slobodan Milosevic as Yugoslav President, but the church continues to give priests a mixed message on what they should do in toppling a President who is an indicted war criminal; church, which supported Milosevic's wars against Croatia and Bosnia, still embraces his nationalist aspirations, while rejecting the savage means he uses to achieve them; photo of Patriarch Pavle, who has called Milosevic's policies in Kosovo criminal (M)