Word: applauding
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...applaud you on the preparation for your special issues on the most influential people of the 20th century. I was quite impressed with the plans your managing editor outlined [TO OUR READERS, Aug. 18]. As a former English teacher, I want to see who will represent literature, especially fiction! BILLY J. HOBBS Tyler, Texas...
...obviously, there are traditionalists that would say ? and I'm one of them ? that you should never applaud in a church. But this was so spontaneous, and so magical, that it was really perfect." The complete text of Earl Spencer's speech...
...typical posting to the newsgroup alt.destroy.microsoft. And the MacWorld crowd booed Gates' image even more than Jobs' turncoat words. But there were cheers too. "Everybody was booing Microsoft," says attendee Mark Lilback, 24, "and then they were like, 'Oh, Bill Gates is listening to this,' and they started to applaud." Who could blame them? They knew the truth: they were a conquered kingdom's starving partisans. Booing Gates meant biting the only hand left with the wherewithal to feed them...
...made valuable contributions to the body of scientific knowledge. By comparison, America's aerospace program has been historically bloated, redundant and rife with its own spectacular failures, including the Hubble Space Telescope, Apollo 13, failed Vanguard launches and, yes, the unfortunate deaths in the Challenger disaster. I applaud the joint space effort. There is no need for a space race among nations, but there is a need for an international effort to build a path into space that is safe and cost-effective and returns a broad benefit to mankind. Let us not belittle that with superficial phrases. JIM MATHERLY...
...with such a classic as "Lawrence of Arabia"; the applause as the music started and as the words "and introducing Peter O'Toole" appeared on the screen; and, of course, as the end credits rolled. Applause is a must. Go see the two films that remain, and remember to applaud loudly. This is an opportunity not to be missed...