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Harvard reunions are not just fun but also educational. Yesterday afternoon, members of the 50th reunion class assembled in Science Center B for an annual reunion week discussion...
...remember my roommates, of course. Farwell Smith '48-'49 took a strange trombone, most of it missing, to the football games. He'd go for one or two notes, and then a part of the trombone would fall out. One freezing afternoon, when the team was losing to Dartmouth, Farwell left his seat, leaving me his trombone, and ran across to the Dartmouth side. Back then the Dartmouth cheerleaders were Indians, their badges painted red, and they wore breached-clouts. To keep out of the cold they spent most of the afternoon huddled in their teepee...
...neighbor asks one predictably fabulous morning, and Truman chirps back, "Always!" He's headed for his honorable job as an insurance salesman, then home to his blond, bedimpled wife Meryl, perhaps off for a late brewski with his best friend, Marlon. You have it all, Truman: good afternoon, good evening and good night! Except for one thing, folks. The whole kit and kaboodle is fake. Truman (Jim Carrey) is the unknowing star of a 24-hour-a-day TV drama that has been aired live around the world for nearly 30 years, since the day Truman was born. Everyone else...
Until the final breakdown Saturday afternoon, it looked for a couple of days last week as if Bill Gates just might have found a way to slip out of this one relatively unscathed. Early Thursday morning, with only hours left before the press conference at which Attorney General Janet Reno and her antitrust chief Joel Klein were to announce one of the largest and most important antitrust cases in American history, Gates demonstrated the cold-blooded brinkmanship for which he is famous: with no time left on the clock, he suddenly made nice. O.K., he told Klein: Let's talk...
...balance, the launches of both Windows 98--and parallel antitrust suits by the Federal Government and some 20 states--were delayed until at least Monday to give the lawyers time to either find their way to common legal ground or determine that no such territory exists. By Saturday afternoon, though, it was clear that--probably by early Monday--Reno's press conference would almost surely be taking place after...