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...that vast Orwellian screen (a Stalinesque edifice uncannily resembling the one that got shattered in the famous first Mac ad in 1984), and the Microsoft leader regaled the Apple masses with his boundless affection for the operating system (OS) whose commercial viability he had spent much of his adult life systematically undermining. "We think Apple makes a huge contribution to the computer industry," Gates assured the room, respectfully observing the taboo against speaking ill of the dead--or, ahem, the gravely ailing. Let's put it this way: you sure didn't hear the man extolling the wonders of Apple...
...want to move up the corporate ladder." That's not a remarkable statement for a career-oriented person--until you consider the speaker. Michael Bradford, 38, battled drugs and alcoholism throughout his adult life and eight months ago was homeless on Washington's streets. His resume includes a six-month jail term for burglary. Born into a welfare family, Bradford fully expected...
...that you would first have to define news. Is the Village Voice news? The American Civil Liberty Union's Website? The Netly News? We use four-letter functionals now and then (but only where no other, five-letter word will suffice). Screw magazine publishes reviews of upcoming adult videos and lap-dancing parlors. That's news, right? See the problem? Even Merrill Brown, MSNBC's editor in chief, pronounces the whole idea "fundamentally ludicrous...
...objections of library staff, the county library board adopted the region's most restrictive Internet-access policy. Henceforth, the library will arm its computers with filters to censor obscene sites--the definition of obscenity, of course, being largely up to whichever filter Loudoun County ends up deciding to buy. Adults who want to cruise the Net sans filter will have to ask the librarian to call off the watchdogs; children under 17 will be able to do so only if accompanied by an adult. "The issue is whether pornography will get into the library," says board president John Nicholas...
...these hearings are not just politics as usual, and they should not be made partisan, as Glenn has tried to do. We must let Congress freely investigate questionable practices. I recall as a child watching TV and seeing Glenn in space. I have respected him most of my adult life, but what I have seen over the past few weeks makes me think he left something behind in space: his integrity. E. GRADY THURSTON Suisun City, Calif...