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...that AT&T may try to bypass the Baby Bells is by joining forces with local cable operators, such as through the rumored deal with TCI. AT&T would provide cable systems with the valuable switching technology they need to offer interactive, or two-way, services such as home shopping and movies-on- demand. This type of combined strength was the rationale behind the deal between Time Warner (parent company of this magazine) and U S West, one of the Baby Bells...
...silvery racket heap the abuse. The United States Tennis Association ranked him among its top 10 players seven times during the 1970s. He was No. 1 in 1975 when he beat Connors at Wimbledon, and fifth in 1979 when he had his first heart attack and underwent quadruple-bypass surgery...
...professional athlete, became, as he put it, "a professional patient." Physicians replaced coaches. He learned to handle 30 pills a day and gently swing a golf club. Even though the former tennis star was a top-10 patient, his coronary artery disease worsened. Feeling especially low after a second bypass operation in 1983, he asked his doctor about clinical options. " 'You can wait it out, Arthur, and you'll feel better after a while,' he said. 'Or we can give you a couple of units of blood. That would be no problem...
...best way for Clinton to minimize the influence of congressional lions is to try to build Capitol Hill constituencies early and pay close attention to congressional prerogatives and sensitivities. As Dole advises from his sunny balcony, "If you really want cooperation ((from Congress)), don't bypass us until you suddenly need us." In other words, Bill Clinton must learn to pet the lions if he doesn't want them to bite...
Merwin himself had a Princeton education but does not let that binder his creativity. He uses the routine of writing to bypass his critical faculties. "I just try to work every morning." Flaubert said, "Inspiration consists of sitting down at the same table at the same time every day. That's wonderful, because it's so plain and takes all the sort of breathiness out of it. And Flaubert was a very great writer, don't you think...