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...dispatch before the big 25th. As you know, I'll soon be turning over the class notes to the always capable TWIGG NELSON, so all future letters and cards should go to him c/o his ashram. In the meantime, I want to thank all the folks at the Alumni Bulletin who made this job such a snap...
...poster on the bulletin across from the graffiti advertised "Queer Harvard Month...
...line was set up for users in remote areas that have no local dialup access. Subscribers who learned about the special access line from AOL marketing personnel were warned that they would be charged special usage fees of $6 per hour. But once news of the number hit bulletin boards and chat rooms on the service, legions of frustrated subscribers started dialing in without realizing they were running up big bills, assuming that being an 800 number, it would be free. Some AOL members didn't have a choice but to connect to the network through the 800 number. According...
...well as every crank. And that is precisely what gives parents pause when they wonder what strange ideas and people their children may encounter on the electronic frontier. As a readily accessible soapbox, the Net attracts the same groups that have always tacked pamphlets on grocery store and college bulletin boards and placed tiny ads in the backs of journals to get the word out. As disturbing as the quasi-philosophical blather on the Heaven's Gate website may be, it never got much attention until the networks and Internet publishers (including Pathfinder) sought it out as legitimate news...
Ironically, Lake might have been better suited to the CIA post than he was to the NSC. He is secretive by nature and never sought the limelight; a bulletin board used to hang in the White House situation room with all the press photos that described him as an "unidentified staffer." While at the White House, he preferred shooting pool with Secret Service agents to hitting the Georgetown cocktail circuit. But Lake has not been shy about asking the CIA to undertake covert operations. During the first four years of the Administration he backed sensitive CIA operations...