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...humanity of these two men collides in the early hours of September 4, creating a bizarre, almost surreal spectacle. Sportcasters such as Howard Cosell find themselves on point as hundreds of television cameras beam images of the terrorists' leader, "Issa," who for some reason has blackened his face and wears a white hat as he coolly lays down his terms to German officials ranging from a bemused young policewoman with whom he shares a cigarette to Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher, who confesses with hindsight to being quite taken with Issa's obvious charisma. His second in command, "Tony," constantly...
Taking center stage there during the Games will be 23-year-old Australian guitar virtuoso Slava Grigoryan. His recitals next month with the ACO might be up against the gymnastics finals, but Grigoryan's long fingers are just as flexible as a beam artist. The Kazakhstan-born, Melbourne-raised musician combines technical mastery with warmth and the spirit of youth. Tognetti praises his "sensuous style. He's a very organic sort of player...
Some of the stuff on the m100 doesn't appeal to me. While you can "beam" programs and other data to any other Palm user within sight, the hardware for synching the device with your computer is more downscale. Instead of a handy "cradle" that attaches to your PC or Macintosh--so you can just drop the thing in--the m100 comes with a serial cable. It does the job, of course, allowing you to back up your m100 to your computer, download programs and Web pages and all the rest. But it's not as elegant. Also, while...
...Beam Him Up, Scotty...
...course of a year some of my most important numbers have ended up in the phone. The problem is that there's no way to get the personal phone book off the Nokia, despite an infrared port at one end that looks like it should be able to "beam" the numbers to a Palm or other infrared device. Unless, of course, I copy them out by hand...