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...Saturday had promised to be a quiet one. Most of the magazine was already put to bed, and our skeletal weekend crew was wrapping up the last details when jolting news arrived from Jerusalem at 2 p.m.: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin had been shot. That bulletin last November, which soon plunged Israel into mourning, sent the TIME staff into overdrive. Over the next 28 hours, correspondents on three continents pulled together the details of the assassination, while writers in New York City wove their dispatches into polished stories. It was a classic example of what is sometimes called group...
Judging from the thousands of messages that have been plastered across Usenet, the vast bulletin-board system of the Internet, something more than silliness is going on here. "He wasn't your average murderer," writes a typical fan on alt.fan.unabomber. (For Unabomber info on the Web, go to: http://pathfinder.com/ pathfinder/features/unabomber/index.html). In fact, spiritual strands link antigovernment cyberpunks and the outlaw...
Zhang takes pains to weed overtly political speech from CompuNet's bulletin boards. But information, as they say on the Net, wants to be free, and it's not clear how much free expression the Communist Party will tolerate. The government has already outlawed the online transmission of pornography and state secrets, and in February it required all Internet users to register with the police. The Chinese people may be only 100 meters from the information highway, but those last 100 meters could be the trickiest...
...five other Internet addresses were targeted last week, ranging from the prestigious president@whitehouse.gov to the evocative rage@us.disarray.com The victims included the New York Times' chief Silicon Valley reporter, two leading hacker magazines, a couple of interns at MTV and a man who once ran a Hell's Angels computer bulletin board. Gene Steinberg, a free-lance writer from Scottsdale, Arizona, is convinced that he made the hit list because he publicly defended America Online on a Usenet newsgroup called alt.aol.sucks...
Locker rooms and bulletin boards of student organizations are also littered with bracket sheets for their own pools...