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Gates is not the only one trying to horn in on this market. Every major bank and credit-card company sees financial transactions on the Internet as a huge business opportunity. There are even plans afoot to replace the expensive Electronic Funds Transfer System used by banks to exchange credit with a system of encrypted transactions carried over the cheapest available open network, which is to say, the Internet...
President Neil L. Rudenstine takes leave-hundreds of student's fall ill North House renamed Pforzheimer House-surely, a conspiracy is afoot! Someone is looking to drag Harvard down...
...would open a police academy -- an effort to replace Haiti's disintegrated police force. But the U.S. Justice Department says it will have to retrain members of the old police force and army, "screening" out those known to have violated human rights under the junta. Meanwhile, trouble is still afoot: U.S. Special Forces are tracking down two armed anti-Aristide bands after three rural raids turned up dozens of weapons...
...monumental year for sports in the Big Apple. And the fans are loving it all. Unless, of course, you happen to be one of those oddball New Yorkers who roots for exactly zero of those teams. Unless, that is, you happen to be me. There's a conspiracy afoot against me. Just about every sports fan I know back in my hometown on Long Island has had at least one team to root for during this year of years for Empire State athletics. Except...
...night before Jack flew to Los Angeles for the Democratic Convention, where he would be nominated for President, the two retreated into a stark hotel suite. After months of delegate hunting, the real game was afoot, and she knew that ahead lay surging crowds and screaming groupies. The moment was almost desolate, the beginning of something strange and maybe not nice. It was in Jackie's circled eyes. She could not raise room service. She found Cokes, remade the bed while her husband talked Vice Presidents with a friend...