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...players and video recorders, people have by and large shunned high-tech products and services like personal computers and electronic shopping. While big corporations were infected with PC mania during the 1980s, households remained largely immune. There are far fewer homes with PCs than analysts predicted, much to the chagrin of manufacturers like IBM and Commodore. Another loser: the picture telephone. First introduced by AT&T at the 1964 New York World's Fair, it allows callers to see as well as hear each other. But consumers considered the device -- at $8,000 a set -- not only too expensive...
...speech had been lifted almost word for word from an article by Michael Medved, a PBS film critic, published in a scholarly journal called Imprimis last February. But Medved said Maitre called to apologize. "He acknowledged that he had made a terrible mistake," said Medved. "He was full of chagrin and regret." Stay tuned for the sequel...
...chagrin of many, it was Escobar who arranged his own fate. For several weeks, he negotiated with the government through an intermediary to settle the fine points of his incarceration. He personally selected a jail that boasts virtually impregnable security. The facility has in recent weeks been encircled with an electrified 15-ft.-high chain link fence topped by barbed wire, and outfitted with four 30-ft. observation posts. All of this is not to keep Escobar in -- it is to keep his enemies out. That includes national and secret police, who will not be permitted to enter...
Also, to the opponents' chagrin, Harvard copped the song title...
...parliamentarians elected by his subjects, and granting them freedom to run the country. After that, he should continue to rule as England's Queen Elizabeth does -- proudly. Absolute Arab monarchies are on the downside of history's curve, and Hussein, at least, knows it. In late 1989, to the chagrin of hereditary Arab monarchs, he ordered up Jordan's first real election for seats in parliament, a body that serves only at his pleasure. His parliament is less than perfect as a vehicle for orderly transition to popular rule, but with time running out, it will have...