Word: begun
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...buzz has begun...
...with joy that we watched as Harvard honored President Nelson Mandela and the new democratic regime elected by all the people of South Africa. Our joy is for the South African people who have removed their oppressors from power, dismantled apartheid and begun rebuilding their country without violence in the spirit of truth and reconciliation...
...matter how cheap or simple the personal-computer industry makes its new PCs--and many now sell for less than $1,000--they still daunt many would-be users. But a new wave of "information appliances" has begun to bridge the gap between PCs and consumer electronics by bringing capabilities such as e-mail and Internet access to TVs, telephones and other homey devices. Unlike even the least expensive PCs, which are designed for a variety of uses, information appliances focus on a few core functions and usually sell for $500 or less...
WASHINGTON: The fishing expedition is under way. House Judiciary Committee members have begun hearing from witnesses in the Kathleen Willey affair, a matter so nebulous that even Ken Starr did not make impeachment charges out of it. Willey's lawyer, Daniel Gecker, went in front of a closed-door session of the committee Monday and left without comment. Up next: Nathan Landow, the Democratic donor and landowner, will be probed on whether President Clinton asked him to influence Willey's testimony. When he appeared before Starr's grand jury, Landow invoked the Fifth Amendment. Whether 37 politicians can succeed...
This was probably bound to happen now that the baby-boom generation running Hollywood has begun to turn the corner on 50 (in test screenings, Meet Joe Black is reported to have played particularly well to older men). The earnest side of my brain--the part that thinks Al Gore will make a darn fine President--even feels that these films should be applauded for trying to treat death as something sacred without asking us to watch some Oscar-trolling star die of a brain tumor. But if you're going to treat death as something more than an excuse...