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...bang-up way to start a trial. Microsoft's outside-the-courthouse spin team peddled the view that Boies' opening statement was based on "loose and unreliable rhetoric and snippets that were not in any reliable context." But court watchers were already arguing whether Gates' statements were actually perjurious or merely Clintonesque. Some saw an even more sinister subtext to Boies' opening statement and the incorporeal, larger-than-life double-tongued creature he described as luring unwitting followers to his crusade for world domination. Could the U.S. government really be suggesting that Gates is evil incarnate...
...feeling as the 20th century winds down? "Convinced of exhaustion, extreme peril, exorbitant risk, explosive transformation." This is historian Hillel Schwartz's description of the fin-de-siecle mind-set in his definitive book Century's End. Schwartz was writing in 1988 and looking forward to a bang-up final decade. Indeed, the 1990s got off to a respectable fin-de-siecle start, what with the Gulf War and the fall of communism, the L.A. riots, even the apocalyptic rhetoric of the Republican revolution. But in the two years since Oklahoma City, the rough edges of the national psyche seem...
BRUCKNER: SYMPHONY NO. 6 (EMI). The obscure Sixth in a bang-up reading by Riccardo Muti and the Berlin Philharmonic. And you thought Bruckner was boring...
BRUCKNER: SYMPHONY NO. 6 (EMI). The obscure Sixth in a bang-up reading by Riccardo Muti and the Berlin Philharmonic. And you thought Bruckner was boring...
Penn's offensive line played bang-up football, shoving the ball down Harvard's throat for 557 total yards (340 rushing, 217 passing). The front wall opened holes the size of moon craters for running back Bryan Keys (28 carries for 178 yards and three touchdowns) while giving ready-to-run quarterback Malcolm Glover (14 of 22 passes, 217 yards and a touchdown) ample time to pick the Crimson secondary apart...