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...story builds subtlety--with Cooke jumping from Darling and Carla speeding through the French countryside on a bullet train in the present to past scenes of their meeting and their misadventures in Venice--to a beautifully realized conclusion. Cooke's atypical story chronicles Americans abroad coming to terms with everything from mortality and loneliness to nudity...

Author: By Brandon K. Walston, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Best of the Best | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

...broken, but don't worry--Marty Tenenbaum knows how to fix it. Tenenbaum is chairman of CommerceNet, a nonprofit organization based in Palo Alto, Calif., and devoted, unsurprisingly, to promoting commerce on the Net. And his silver bullet, an obscure design language called XML, is about to transform cyberspace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KEEPING TABS ONLINE | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

Junior defenseman Matt Scorsune finished off the scoring when he ripped a bullet from the left point with just under 11 minutes to go in the game. That capped off a Crimson offensive performance which saw it generate not only five goals, but 48 shots on net and two power-play goals...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hockey Slides By McGill in Exhibition, 5-2 | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

Wordlessly, Foale reversed direction and raced toward the Soyuz. He was aware that at this very second, at least, there was no real reason to abandon ship. Yes, Progress was closing in, but Tsibliyev was at the controls, and hadn't he dodged just such a bullet only weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A BAD DAY IN SPACE | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

...Waco picks apart disparate bits of information and uses them to bring about logical conclusions. For example, why didn't the Davidians, despite their mass of weapons and knowledge of the raid, immediately bomb the ATF's forces? If the Davidians were the aggressors, why were most of the bullet holes inverted, suggesting the contrary...

Author: By Jeremy J. Ross, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Burning Down the House: A Reassessment of the Waco Tragedy | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

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